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Old 17-06-2013, 04:56 AM
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Solar - help!

I tried some solar work today, I've got Jerry Lodriguss' "book" on planetary imaging and have tried to follow it to the tee.
However I'm shooting with a Canon 5D3 and not a 60D or 550D with movie crop mode, I'm obviously ending up with images that are only 1920 pixels wide, and for the life of me cannot pull up the kind of detail I am seeing in some your guys images.
I put a 2xbarlow on took it off of prime focus, this was now too close and couldn't get the entire solar disc in the frame.
Where am I going wrong? how are you guys shooting proms, some of the images I see on this forum look like they were not shot as mov files as the detail is something I could only pull out my camera in stills mode?

http://astropix.co.za/solar/sun_final1.jpg
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