Sun Today

[Derek Klepp]

Heres some shots from today in various wavelengths .Stacked in Registax adjusted in Picasa.

[Dennis]

A nice collection Derek – you must have been busy collecting all those images through the various instrument configurations and filters, not to mention the processing!

Cheers

Dennis

[John K]

Very nice Derek, amazing detail you have captured there.

Can you share with us a bit more about the equipment and tecniques that you use?


John K.

[Derek Klepp]

John my basic setup is a HEQ5Pro mount with either a 127mm Refractor and piggybacked 60mm Daystar Ha Scope.Or the Daystar scope side by side with a 100 mmED refractor on the same mount. The refractors are fitted with a 2" Lunt Wedge with a 2" Baader Solar Continuum Filter for white light.(The eyepiece views here are far better than anything I can record) .For the CaK shots I place a Baader3.8ND Filter(Home made) over either the 100 0r 127mm refractor and screw the Baader K-line filter into a 1.25" diagonal then mount my camera(A GSTAREX video camera) into the eyepiece. This set up is not for visual use and as yet although it shows more surface granulation I cannot achieve the sharpness that the Lunt Wedge achieves for the actual Sunspots.
As for techniques I'm pretty rough I basically capture 1000 frame AVIs stack them in Registax5 and hope for the best. A bit of post processing in Picasa and thats it.
Hope that helps.As time goes by I hope that one day I'll be able to produce images similar to the high res shots posted by others on this forum.
Derek

[John K]

Thanks for sharing your tecnique Derek. Great images once again.

John.

[astronobob]

Super results and great work Derek ! Thanx also for the Technique Info, certainly is food for thought for this black duck :thumbsup:
Great stuff ! !