Active Region 1289 – Baader solar film

[Dennis]

Hello,

The seeing played some tantalising games today, offering fleeting moments of quite exceptional clarity in between the background noise of high frequency jiggling pixels on the notebook display.

By starting the recording when the image became quite stable and then pausing during the wobbly bits, I managed to accumulate an AVI of some 2000 frames from which I harvested the best 250 or so using AVIStack V1.8.

We hit 32° C today – a hot day for this time of the year!

Cheers

Dennis

[John Hothersall]

Blimey that is so detailed, you certainly played a wise game of wait and grab. Avistack 1.8 is still the best for detail extraction which shows here. The best I have seen for detail, outstanding Dennis. Yes its getting hotter, hope seeing will improve too.

[sheeny (Al)]

Superb work Dennis! (as usual)...

I'm just processing the solage I collected this morning... I doubt it will be of such high calibre.

Al.

[Dennis]

Thanks John and Al, I appreciate your comments.

@ Al, I hope your processing run goes smoothly and quickly – processing these types of images can take hours and hours!

Here is a mosaic of a couple of the other active regions.

Cheers

Dennis

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Good morning Dennis
That is a awesome image - so much detail in it!
Thanks!!!

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by Matt Wastell

Good morning Dennis
That is a awesome image - so much detail in it!
Thanks!!!

Thanks Matt!

I grabbed a few AVI’s this morning around 9:00am before the seeing became too variable again. I had to expose for double the value compared to yesterday, just to punch through that horrible smoke haze. The seeing was slightly more sustained today so less of a need to stop/start and harvest.

The forecast is for 33° C today, so I’ve packed up and come indoors as my neck is too red and the seeing has definitely dropped off now.

Cheers

Dennis

[El Paso Eric (Eric)]

Wow ! I don't think I've ever seen white light images as good as these. I was considering a white light conversion with my FSQ. This makes me interested in working on this even more.

Thanks for sharing these!

[Jen]

wow very nice Dennis

[Dennis]

Thank you Eric and Jen – I was blessed with good seeing, the best friend a solar system imager could wish for!

Cheers

Dennis

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Superb work Dennis.
Such detail using a white light filter is awesome.

[Derek Klepp]

Great pics Dennis thanks.

[Paul Haese]

Lovely work Dennis. Excellent detail in all the images.

[iceman (Mike)]

Stunning result, Dennis. Love the 3D effect near the edge of the disc.

This is now IOTW.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Congrats on making IOTW Dennis.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Terrific shot Dennis and congrats on another IOTW.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Congrats Dennis on IOTW, you are really on a roll with this Solar work, love the resolution.

Regards
Trevor

[midnight (Darrin)]

Exceptional Dennis! Plenty of detail there. Congrats on IOTW too!

Darrin...

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by iceman

Stunning result, Dennis. Love the 3D effect near the edge of the disc.

This is now IOTW.

Thank you Mike – I appreciate the opportunity to share my results with the Ice In Space community via the Forum, as well as through the built-in enhancements such as IOTW.

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Thank you Jeanette, Derek, Paul, Mike, Marc, Trevor and Darrin, I appreciate all your kind words. I will offer a silent prayer to the gods of good seeing tonight, in recognition of their predominant role and contribution to the success of these types of images.

Cheers

Dennis

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Wow thats just stunning Dennis. It looks like an image from the Swedish Solar Telescope. It's so crisp and detailed, one of the best white light images I have seen.

It's been too long since I looked through my Baader filter, I haven't made one to fit my new scope yet. But this image is very inspiring, thanks.