Today's Sun 30 Jun

[George Ionas]

Patience was needed today to image the sun while waiting for a long thin slither of cloud to move away from obscuring the sun, the rest of the sky was clear.

A few nice prominences were captured including one that had lifted off.

Used the Tak FS-60C + SM40 + BF30 + DMK51.

[asimov]

Nice work George. I actually had that same sliver of cloud yesterday lol. Today one cloud only about 6 X bigger than the Sun appeared out of nowhere & eclipsed the Sun for close on ten mins...I couldn't believe that, & almost packed it in forthwith thinking it was certainly a sign from someone that didn't like me to NOT image or you'll be sorry, lol!

[George Ionas]

That cloud annoyed me as I waited for hours for it to move, I was ready to pull the pin and pack up. In the end I had to flip the scope over to the other side of the meridian and then I forgot to rotate the image afterwards - it just wasn't my day.

[Solar]

Happens all the time George. Cloud and forgetting stuff.:rofl:
You have all the ingredients in your image. What setting are using on the DMK51 and what are you post processing with. It appears a bit green and over exposed.

[George Ionas]

Ralph, I'm using IC Capture software, the settings are Gama 150, Gain set to minimum exposure 1/217th of a second, processed with CS5.

[asimov]

George, mostly I capture the disc separately to the proms then combine them after. gain fairly low, 50-60 gamma for the disc, at least 50% gain 150+ gamma for the proms.