PST Solar Mosaic March 10

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Hi,

Did this mosaic of the sun taken with my PST today. It is a composite of 20 images. All the avis were processed in Registax and the individual images stitched together in Photoshop CS5.

I'm astounded by what 40mm of aperture can pick up.

Thanks for looking.

RichardJ

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Very nice catch!
Well done.
Your image is a little "over cooked" - I'd back of the wavelets and contrast.....
The detail is there......

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Hi Merlin66,

Thanks for the feedback. I like contrasty images. This image of the Sun reminds me of a magnet underneath paper with iron filings on top.

RichardJ

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Hi Richard - that is a great mosaic - the PST are great scopes.
I am always amazed what we can pick up on the Sun - but I guess it has the same angular size as the Moon and some of the current features on the Sun (like the monster filament) are much larger (angular size) than features on the Moon that are easily observed.
The large AR can bee seen with the naked eye. I held up my white light solar filter to the Sun today and easily saw it and some of the smaller ones. It is amazing that we can see these thing from 150 million km away!

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

A great image Richard. Very well done to stitch so many tiles without any seams visible. Good work!

All these PST Ha images making me wonder if I should try to get a PST in time for the Venus transit.

-Ivan

[Derek Klepp]

Nice Richard

[Nico13 (Ken)]

Nice work from the little PST, would be quite happy to own one myself.

[stephenb (Stephen)]

Nice result Richard. What camera are you using?

Stephen

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks. Its an ImagingSource DBK21AU04.AS.

regards,

RichardJ

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Hi,

I've worked out how to add the prominences to the original image and have uploaded the result.

Thanks for looking.

RichardJ