Venus Transit Hydrogen Alpha the full disk

[Paul Haese]

After last nights ASSA meeting I decided to work over the data and try to get the image at least mostly sorted for display. Several hours later I came up with the result below which still needs some work, but for the most part I am happy with how this image turned out. Especially given the hurried circumstances I was placed under due to cloud.

It was a wonderful event to witness again and it will go into my list of most interesting astro events that I have seen in my life. I really must do a top ten of those.

In this image you can see a lot of really large active regions but surprisingly not many prominences which is quite odd really. There were some around on the day but these did not seem to get recorded well.

Click here (http://paulhaese.net/Mosaicsolardisk6June2012.html)for image. Warning it is large, but hey this is the sun and that is how we want it. (900kb)

Feel free to comment or tell me what you think.

[StephenM]

Brilliant Paul!!!

Cheers,
Stephen

[FlashDrive]

WOW ... :eyepop: now that is a superb photo .. just beautiful ... !!
Excellent detail ... such colour.

Nice indeed Paul....... Flash :hi:

[cometcatcher]

NASA quality. Love it.

[Shiraz]

really delivered the goods there Paul - a beauty. regards Ray

[Dennis]

Hi Paul

A spectacular image of the solar disk in itself, let alone with the added bonus of Venus’ silhouette. It really conveys quite dramatically, the scale of our solar system and the powerful engine that drives it.

I sympathise with the amount of data you had to crunch and combine to produce this stunning mosaic.

Cheers

Dennis

[Deeno]

Awesome!

[iceman]

Lovely furry Sun!

Nice work Paul!

[Peter Ward]

Nice job Paul :thumbsup:

P.S.
There were proms ;)

[Poita]

Looks great Paul, I peeked at it on your website earlier.
I noticed the lack of proms compared to what I saw at the same time of day. Did you have any cloud at all?

[asimov]

Lovely work mate.

[spacezebra]

Awesome!

Cheers Petra d.

[Jaybee]

Incredible Detail Paul, is that slight ring around Venus, it's atmosphere?? Well Done!!:thumbsup:

[Matt Wastell]

Great stuff! Looking forward to seeing what else you have!

[callingrohit]

awesome awesome image Paul.

Could you kindly share the equipments used in achieving this photograph ?

[Ric]

A fantastic image Paul.

Definitely one to be proud of.

[DJ N]

Fantastic work Paul. Well done!!

[peter_4059]

Very impressive Paul. Well done.

[allan gould]

Excellent image Paul. I even think that at the bottom of Venus you have managed to cature some of its atmosphere around the planet

[Shark Bait]

My favourite so far. Thanks for sharing.

[swannies1983]

Fantastic result! Well done. Pity the sky wasn't clear for 3rd contact. I was lucky as there was a large chunk of cloud free sky for this contact.

[Paul Haese]

Thanks all, much appreciate the comments.

Peter W, you always seem to get better prom detail but I suspect this is because I do not do a run for the prominences and I choose to brighten those up. Having the extra aperture would help you too. Yes I did see proms of course but there was nothing really large. Mind you I have another run to process yet and there might be something in there.

Peter (Poita) we had heaps of cloud but this was not the issue for me, I had to hurry to get data and the etalon settings were not optimal.

John, I don't think that is atmosphere. I think it is more likely processing artifacts myself, but it may be atmosphere. :shrug:

Vivek, under the image you will find all the details of the image including equipment. Basically I processed 6 panels (I actually wanted 12 or so) with 700 frames in each panel. Then I do a combine in photoshop which is not perfect but I need advice on a mosaic program that will even out the frames.

[jenchris]

May I touch the hem of your garment?

[danielsun]

:lol:







Wow Paul, truly awesome!!!:thumbsup:

Cheers Daniel.

[Derek Klepp]

Very nice Paul especially that Filaprom on the Left

[trent_julie]

Paul,
Your solar images are always great!

Trent

[OICURMT]

Your image made the Channel 10 News in Adelaide...


CONGRATS !!!!! :thumbsup:

OIC!

[DavidU]

Just awesome !:thumbsup:

[Astroman]

I was wondering how you went Paul, terrific image as usual...

[gregbradley]

Holy Cow Paul!

What a spectacular image.

One of the most impressive astro images I've ever seen. So incredibly sharp. You can even see Venus's atmosphere. Amazing.

My hat is off to you Sir.

Greg.

[Quark]

Very nice work Paul.

Cheers
Trevor

[LucasB]

Wow! Spectacular stuff Paul. Well done:thumbsup:
Lucas

[h0ughy]

fantastic Paul - lovely work

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate your comments.

Thanks Greg, that is high praise indeed. I am happy you like the image.

OIC, yes I saw that but I did not think the image was so at its best.

[OICURMT]

Hey, what do you expect... TV is only HD... ha ha

so lo-res compared to what you shoot!

[Phil Hart]

beautiful paul. superb. great that the sun was active as well.

[gary]

And I thought the sneak preview you put out on the 6th June was good ...

Wonderful Paul!

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys for all the responses. Glad you like the image. I was aiming for something much more spectacular but weather did conspire to put that to a halt. Perhaps the eclipse in Novemeber will afford me the time I need for this project in mind.:question:

[RobF]

Inspiring stuff. Thanks for sharing Paul.

[Star Catcher]

Paul a very nice shot under the circumstances. I'm sure you can tweak it some more, but you can only do so much with the data if conditions were variable for the panels.
Ted

[DavidNg]

Cant get any better.

[Paul Haese]

I reckon more panels next time I image will give a better result. Certainly need something in the order of 12 or so panels.

Done a bit more work on this image and it can be found at the link below

Click here (http://paulhaese.net/Mosaicsolardisk6June2012.html)to see image.

[Rigel003]

Sorry I haven't commented on this earlier. It's a major achievement, especially given the dubious weather predictions. A great record to treasure for a lifetime.

[AstroFlyer]

Fantastic image Paul.
Always admire your work.
Your processing is superb.
This would make a great wall poster.

[strongmanmike]

Yeh Paul this is a great record, very well done :thumbsup:

You have a nice collection of excellent solar discs at your web site and now one with the silhouette of Venus on it - gold :thumbsup:

Mike

[gregbradley]

I like the tweaked version even more. You've got that awesome golden yellow but you've got that nice red limb ala Peter Ward's image which looks fantastic.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys appreciate your thoughts and comments.

Mike that was always my goal to have a record for the event and one I was proud to say is mine. That is fair to say has been achieved. Last transit I was in between scopes and watched it through a 4" Baader filter and viewed it naked eye. This was much more memorable.

Greg, I like my colour scheme quite a lot. It took me some time to get the general colour for each mosaic and they do vary a little but generally I like that golden colour.

[el_draco]

Holy Cow, thats one seriously impressive image!

[Uriabraham]

Amazing, the clarity, the details wow. better than what i watched on tv.

Uri

[Irish stargazer]

Outstanding. :eyepop:
Looks like it was taken from space!

[iceman]

Of course I had to choose a Transit of Venus image for IOTW this week, and while there were literally hundreds to choose from, this is my current favourite.

Very nice work Paul!

It's now IOTW (http://www.iceinspace.com.au).

[stevous67]

That is soooo good. Well done Paul.

Steve

[RobF]

A most worthy IOTW !

[venus]

Congratulations Paul a well deserved IOTW or should I say century!

[Paul Haese]

Wow I am gobsmacked. Thank you very much.

Thanks all for the comments. Everyone is much appreciated.

[Octane]

Mind. Blown.

That is insanely, insanely good.

H

[Paul Haese]

Thanks H.

[Filby]

Very nice detail.

Why do you present the picture upside down?

[Poita]

I can never quite achieve that lovely gold colour, mine always end up looking orange.
Nicely done and congratulations on IOTW.

[ving]

awesomeness paul!

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys appreciate your comments.




No this is right way up. Well according to SOHO and SDO images.:)

[multiweb]

Congrats on IOTW. A terrific shot. :thumbsup:

[allan gould]

Congrats on IOTW it's more than deserved for such a great image.
Malin?

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys. :)



Hmmm maybe. ;)

[TheDecepticon]

Congrats on your IOTW, mate! :thumbsup:

Well done, and great image to boot!:)

[h0ughy]

i think you have a good chance - nothing has surfaced that s better:thumbsup:

[Poita]

Maybe for the Northern Hemisphere. ;)

I remember Venus being on the bottom when looking through the glasses.

[Dennis]

Hi Paul

Congratulations on IOTW, although I think that “Image of the Century” might be more appropriate…:)

Cheers

Dennis

[Shiggy]

What a beautiful image!

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys, much appreciated. We'll find out how this image goes else where in the coming weeks. Not holding my breath. :)

[astronobob]

Mighty Congratts to you Paul, definately an outstanding Image and best Ive seen anywhere, yep :cool:
All the best to where it may/should turn up over coming weeks :question:

[Peter.M]

Guiding looks great in this one, nice round stars!

:rofl:

[Jen]

:eyepop::eyepop: WOW WOW great pic Paul :thumbsup:
Congrats on IOTW :clap::clap:

[Filby]

Yep, me too. I was looking from Sydney.

To quote Mr Squiggle- Upside down, upside down.

[Paul Haese]

Hey thanks for the comments guys.

In terms of the orientation just because it is on lower side when looking at it with your eyes does not mean it is south. Think about it for a moment and think about that being the north pole. It has nothing to do with which hemisphere, the tranist occured over the northern pole.

See this link too.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/transit/venus/Sun2004+2012-2.GIF

[Filby]

Interesting...

So is the sun's northern spin axis on the same side as the earth's southern spin axis?

And your photo is not intended as a photo of what it looked like, rather you think of it like a map, where north is always up?

[Paul Haese]

My image is intended to show what the Sun looked like when viewed from space in a north up presentation. North up is the convention.