First light with Lunt 60 scope - Sun 201012

[RichardJ]

Hi,

First attempt at imaging with my new Lunt solar scope. The scope is well crafted and the optics are excellent. The view through the telescope is simply fabulous and to be honest the image only captures some of the detail. The more time you spend observing the more detail you see.

RichardJ :)

[jjjnettie]

:) What a lovely image for first light. Congrats on the new scope.

[Larryp]

Thats great, Richard!

[Star Catcher]

Well Done Richard. What did you use to image ? A video camera with stacking of frames or a single shot camera?
Ted

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Richard - that is a very good first up run! You are correct - the Lunt solar scopes are great pieces of work.
Looking forward to more images from you - I too would like to know your camera and setting used.

[RichardJ]

Thanks. I used my Imaging source DBK camera. I took 6 x 30 sec videos at prime focus and processed them in Registax. Have to be careful not to overexpose the image. The 6 images were merged and further processed using CS5.

Tried to image the whole disc with the DBK and a focal reducer but could not reach focus (just short). Also, I photographed the whole disk in one go with my Canon 450D (ISO 200; exposure 1/2000 sec) and stacked the images. The scope comes with a thread for a T adaptor. Will post shortly.

Matt how do you take your images?

regards,

RichardJ :)

[RichardJ]

Hi,

Here is an image taken with the Canon 450D (15 images stacked in Registax) and processed in CS5. Turned out better than I expected. This method is certainly a lot quicker than video and photomerge. Looking forward to more imaging and experminetation :)

regards,

RichardJ

[Merlin66]

I use a double stacked SM60 on an ED80 as well as a 102mm PST Mod.
The prefered cameras are the DMK series. I have the DMK21 and DMK41.
Processed in Registax.

[multiweb]

Cool scope Richard. I bet you're going to have a lot of fun with it. Well done. :thumbsup: