First Sunnage for 2012!

[sheeny]

Here's the first images of Sol that I've captured this year. @%&$ weather...

More images to come, but processing has been delayed while I dig out some space on my laptop HDD...:rolleyes:

Al.

[Derek Klepp]

Good to see you getting some Sun Al.

[sheeny]

I'll say!

:)

Al.

[jjjnettie]

Thanks for sharing the image Al. It's a ripper. :) I love what you do.

[sheeny]

Thanks Jeanette. I'll try to get some more processed tonight and upload in the morning.:)

Al.

[h0ughy]

I love seeing the sun shine from a place where its better being dark ;)

ripper of an image Al.

BTW your collimation application is worth my weight in gold, between Scott and myself we collimated the meade 14 in less than 3 min. Fantastic

[Merlin66]

Well done mate!
Nicely processed as well!

[sheeny]

No worries, that's excellent:thumbsup:.

Thanks Ken. Now all I've got to do is get back into spectroscopy and gets some clear skies at night:rolleyes:.

:)

Al.

[Star Catcher]

Nice processing on that one Al. Pickings have been slim for sure!

Ted

[sheeny]

Thanks Ted.

Here's the rest of the set that I processed last night. I did some experimenting with wavelets on these.

No2 is made from my reference frames so its a stack of just 10 frames for each half of the mosaic.

Al.

[sheeny]

Last one.

:)

Al.

[Shiraz]

really good images Al. regards Ray

[iceman]

Very nice Al!
Is that a mosaic or can you capture the entire disc in 1 frame?

[sheeny]

Thanks Ray.

Mosaic. I can just get the disc across the width of the frame so a full disc is a mosaic of 2 stacks.

:)

Al.

[Paul Haese]

Nice image Al. Sol has been rather quiet of late and I suspect we have already seen maximum for this cycle. Each day now is under 100 for spot count and three months ago it was nearing 200. That is a shame if that is the case.

Cloudy here today and quite cold. Lovely global warming.;)

[sheeny]

Yeah I thought it didn't look as busy as it was before Christmas. I hope maximum hasn't been and gone...:sadeyes:.

As for global warming... what do you expect... these new high efficiency fluoros don't put out as much heat as the old globes.:P

Al.

[Matt Wastell]

Nice stuff Al! It has been a frustrating time of late!
I like the proms you captured.

[sheeny]

Thanks Matt. The proms were only captured at prime focus of the ED80 so they should be sharp;). I was having a few issues with ICCapture at the time and gave up before capturing any proms with the 2.5x Powermate in the train... it turns out my HDD was nearly full anyway:rolleyes: (hence the problem with ICCapture). It just wasn't going to happen.:)

Al.