Solar Equatorial Belt Activity - H-Alpha Panorama

[Star Catcher]

Hi All

This morning I grabbed a few frames across the active areas of the sun's equatorial belt. Took 4 avi's to create a 4 frame pano with tons of overlap.

Taken with the Lunt 80, DMK23U274 and 2.5X televue. It pretty much captures the current active regions on the sun.

An eye popping Hi-Res image at 60% scale on the following Flickr Link :):

H-Alpha Solar Equatorial belt Active Regions (http://www.flickr.com/photos/74075989@N00/12380279634/sizes/o/)

Thanks for looking.
Ted

[h0ughy]

drooling now - thats really nice!! some skill in that one

[Star Catcher]

Thanks David, bib not included :)
Ted

[Solar]

Nice Hi Res Ted. Very fine detail when you get close to the image.:thumbsup:

[Star Catcher]

Thanks Ralph. Yes when you get good detail in solar images it is hard to appreciate unless you get some scale on the screen. That is why I chose to link it to a Flickr image rather than use the 200kb limit. It is a bit inconvenient to throw to another URL but it is worth it.

Ted

[Peter Ward]

Humm...:question: processing of the high frequency components looks a tad over-boosted to me...

But nice solar imagery just the same :thumbsup:

[Star Catcher]

Thanks Peter, Yes I need to pull the foot off the pedal a little. Sometimes you go down a processing path and it is hard to go back. I have been experimenting lately with different processing. Easily fixed when I do the repro. :)

Ted