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First go at the sun
So, working from home today, and scope still set up from last night as I'm hoping tonight will be decent.
It is sunny, so I put the solar film on the end of the OTA and booted up sharpcap. I have no real idea of what I'm doing, but at least I knew I was in decent focus from the night before. I manually found the sun with the mount turned off, lock it in place, spin the filter wheel to my Ha that I use for DSOs, fire off some single exposures at different durations to see which is best.
I think this was 3ms duration. I'm pretty happy with it! It looks a lot like what I'm able to see in the eyepiece, so is a nice record. I'd really love to try to get more surface detail, but am not sure if a 1.25" filter will do it. Camera is the zwo asi1600mm, scope william optics zenithstar 81 reduced to 455mm FL.
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