Sun 25th of Sept 2011

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Hello all,

Recently purchased a Coronado PST with a view to imaging the sun. I thought I would share my second try at producing an image. Suggestions or Critique is very welcome. I know I should have a mono ccd camera to do the best work but I don't run a laptop in the field. Maybe one day....

Canon 1000D
Baader Hyperion 8-24mm EP @ 16mm
NEQ6 PRO Mount
Blend of two exposures (one for surface detail, one for prominences)

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Hi Greg
That is a great pic!
I can give no feedback as I have no experience with your camera.
Keep going - hard to believe it was your second attempt!

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Hi greg

We had the solar scope out today! Excellent activity.

Cheers Petra d.

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Originally Posted by Matt Wastell

Hi Greg
That is a great pic!
I can give no feedback as I have no experience with your camera.
Keep going - hard to believe it was your second attempt!

Thank you very much Matt I like to hit the ground running so to speak so before I even brought the scope I did a lot of research on how to capture and process these images, as well as communicating with others who use a similar setup. My first attempt was pretty bad in terms of processing. The data was there but I couldn't bring it out. For this second go I imaged with different settings which helped me to focus and tried a different processing technique. Very happy with how it worked.

Originally Posted by spacezebra

Hi greg

We had the solar scope out today! Excellent activity.

Cheers Petra d.

It was indeed. Thanks Petra You will be able to see this image on the big screen at the next ASAW meeting. I'm ment to be doing a talk on my astrophotography so far.