Mothers Day 2013 AR11744 and AR11745

[h0ughy]

before we were inundated by mothers at our place i managed to get some solar shots off. only processed now as we got rid of the visitors ;)

shot with the ASI120MM and vixen 2.4 barlow, and the 127ED scope and Baader solar wedge. Stacked in Autostakkert and processed in registax and PS. Seeing was very ordinary and we had fog up until 11am

[multiweb]

:eyepop: That's pretty awesome. Now c'mon. It's just a macro of an orange peel right? ;) Love the texture and granularity. One of your best close ups I reckon. :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

dont think so-

here is another take a few minutes after the first one

[Dennis]

Lovely solar granulation and faculae David, you’ve really got that Baader Herschel Wedge singing along!:thumbsup:

Cheers

Dennis

PS - I hope the Mum’s were impressed by your endeavours!:P;)

[h0ughy]

:rofl: no i was told in no uncertain term to close the observatory and not, repeat, not go and process any work. I obeyed the command.

thanks for the positive comments, but to be fair the seeing was not very good, we had a big morning fog that when it was lifting was making the air quite turbulent

[asimov]

Not too bad for crook seeing mate.

[h0ughy]

thanks John, it ended up being a beautiful clear morning /lunch time after i finished, but it was turbulent, i should put up a snippet of the raw video somewhere but it was a 3gig run:help:

[asimov]

I certainly believe you it was crook seeing. The camera & software these days are pretty damned remarkable really :)

[h0ughy]

very true - and they also need expert processing - still looking to fix that part:rofl:

[Paul Haese]

Certainly the nicest solar image you have produced. Nice granulation and great spherical look to the whole image.

[h0ughy]

thanks Paul - i really wanted to get this large sunspot coming around the edge. one day i might jag it for perfect conditions. Mind you though until that day comes i probably will still be hit and miss:lol:;)

it is a steep learning curve that i am sure goes in a loop;)

[h0ughy]

one more from the bunch i took

[Matt Wastell]

Hi David - that is awesome - your best WL to date? Either way top job!

[h0ughy]

thanks Matt

[Ciarlotto]

Great images, David and perfect details... ;)

[h0ughy]

thanks:thumbsup::thanx:

[batema]

Amazing images Dave. Can not wait to get the solar scope (borrowing) for Astrofest this year. When will we sleep?????? Well done.

Mark

[zardos123]

Bloody pesky visitors! your best yet and you did it surrounded by a bunch of mothers! impressed with the detail........was going to say keep up the good work,but i know you will anyway
Brad

[h0ughy]

we can do 24 hours of astronomy if you like ;)

[h0ughy]

thanks Brad:lol: