Day off work , lucky bugger .
Same thing happened to Leon and myself trying a bit of Ha solar viewing up here in the NT sunday arvo , sucker punches .
Did see a Qantas 707 fly over , aye Leon ... , as a storm approached ..
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Brian.
Brian
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Originally Posted by h0ughy
On Sunday afternoon I took some time out to get some sunnage. The family knew to leave me alone and I enjoyed the task at hand getting wha ti thought were good image captures using the DMK41 and the Image source capture programme, previously I was using the ZWO 120mm and SharpCap.
I was in the dome – the southerly was howling about me but inside with the top only drawn back it was cosy, and all I did was raise the pier to get some coverage. I took off the 0.5 reducer and put on a 2.4x vixen Barlow and got great focus, except for a big black drop on the left which was in the image train somewhere. So I cleaned the Barlow, cleaned the wedge, but it didn’t shift so I resorted to a ROI which I then used to capture the while sun in 20 x 2 min panels. I though t I had gigabytes worth of data—well maybe not. For the life of me I have no idea why, but my captures were just over 200mb instead of about 1.2gb and I had made 49 of them (expecting 50-60gb) – I had some compression going on, and the way the file was saved? Normally I can read the files straight into autostakker but it wouldn’t touch them, had to do it in Registax6, but even then they were distorted, the ratio was out and made the sun look like a squashed orange?
While I had fun – I just wasted 2 hours of solar imaging through my own stupidity. So stupid I don’t even know what I did wrong?
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