New Sun spot on its way

[Marke]

New sun spot , I am sure a lot more images coming just got my first from this morning .
Daystar Quark , 127mm ASI174

[Saturnine]

As we are becoming accustomed to, your images are worth waiting for. Beautiful detail once again and the spot may give us more yet.

[Marke]

Cheers let's hope this spot puts on a show and so some good weather to go with it lol

[Outcast]

Holy Crap!!

Geez these are fantastic shots Marke...

Can you share some secrets on how you are getting so much detail including chromosphere & proms in the same shot... are they mosaics/layered shots or is there some other deep dark secret to getting these results...

I can't seem to get the level of detail you or Ken get no matter how much I try....

Is it an equipment thing? I have a Lunt 60mm with BF1200 and choice of either ZWO ASI224MC, Canon EOS 1100d or Orion SSAG (not the best choice maybe despite being mono).. sadly, I can't spring for anymore camera's at present

Cheers

[Merlin66]

Well done Mark!
You show the new AR very well and the additional proms add the detail nicely.

I hope the weather breaks down here in the next week.

Carlton, I'll let Mark answer....

I just use Firecapture, AS3! then ImPPG.

[Marke]

Wish I could say there was some secret but basically I take the same approach as with planetary . Use the fastest frame rate I can with the 174 Firecapture high speed mode and spend a bit of time with careful focusing and take on average around 5k images at least and stack around 5% of those. Sometimes I take an image for the prom and one for the surface and then blend them together in PS . THe full disk is with an Orion ST80 and 0.5x reducer and gives me full disk with the Quark and I take and image for the proms and disk separately and blend them in PS . The closeups here were single images and using curves in Imppg to give both in the one image rest is just tweaking in PS . The 224 is probably not ideal as you only need a mono camera and its FoV is small compared to the 174 , I know as I have 224 , 174 , 290 and 1600

[Outcast]

Cheers to both Ken & you Mark,

Ken has given me advice of a similar nature; (I'm a slow learner.. lol...) I'm not entirely sure if my camera's are quite up to the fast frame rates you guys are using but, I haven't actually had them out attached to my laptop thus far... only to a tablet so, I suspect I'm not getting the full capacity out of any of them... Need to stop being quite so lazy... :rofl:

Yeah, I'm aware the 224MC probably isn't the best choice overall but, probably the best choice of what I have... gotta start saving pennies for a decent mono camera I think... :D

Haven't tried ImPPG yet either, although I think I've downloaded it.. need to give it a spin with some of the data I already have maybe...

I have some stacked data (using autostakkert) & still have the original video footage I took though, no where near the number of frames you guys capture... does ImPPG stack video or do I use it after stacking in autostakkert?

Think I have to work hard on my processing skills (both solar & other imaging) to pull better results out of what I have...

Thanks & keep them coming please.. they are both inspirational & a little depressing (compared to my efforts)... I just need to keep plugging away at it & try a little harder...

Cheers

[Marke]

Imppg is just post process mainly for Solar I capture with a PC ,USB3 straight to a dedicated SSD so I can get frame rates in solar around 150fps give or take and down to 40fps for faint proms

[JimsShed]

Oh wow and goodness me!! I just happened to browse by here to be astounded by these incredible images. Man you've got to be proud of this stuff.

[Marke]

Cheers I have been happy with the results in getting :thumbsup: