Sun 3-6-11

[Peter Ward]

A clear morning! Yea Gods!

What to do? Mow the lawn or take Image of the sun..... (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery101.html)

[iceman]

Good choice!

Crracker of an image! Stunning.

[multiweb]

Wow! Stunning shot indeed. :thumbsup: It's got everything you can think of in one take.

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Marc, Mike. In one take?? Well not quite....it needed about 12,000 frames :)

[Derek Klepp]

Great Pic

[Martin Pugh]

Absolutely brilliant Peter.

Martin

[Saturn%5]

Very NIce.

[ChrisM]

Hamburger with the lot! Stunning pic.

What gear did you use Peter?

Chris

[Martin Pugh]

Peter
was this taken at prime focus on your AP155 or were you using a reducer?

thanks
Martin

[Peter Ward]

Thanks guys.... FYI AP155 at its native F7 focus.

Finally got a 2" reducer for the STX16803....will be interesting to see how the solar disk goes at a glacial frame rate, but much larger scale using SBIG's planet-master mode.

[Paul Haese]

Love the prominence work. Cloudy here at present but I think being double stacked I miss out on the really cool prominences.

[Martin Pugh]

So this was a mosaic?!

I was playing with CCDCalc to see what a Skynx 2-2 would frame with an FSQ106, so when I popped in the AP155 for comparison purposes, it only covered about 2/3rds of the Sun?

cheers
Martin

[Peter Ward]

Yes. A mosaic! :)

You should however get a full solar frame with the FSQ and Skynyx 2-2....which is what I used to capture the ISS a while back (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery87.html).

[oosh]

Incredible image Peter! I know not of how you did it, but it's striking - would love to be able to shoot the sun one day :)

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Peter
Excellent - the lawn must wait it will be there tomorrow!!!!

[AstroFlyer]

+1

Always a pleasure to see your images.
Something to aspire to.
How do you blend the images to form the mosaic?
It is perfect!