Sunspot 798 - Brisbane 21 Aug 2005

Dennis · #1 21-08-2005, 01:50 PM

Hello

Here is an image of Sunspot 798 from this morning. It was a bit of a struggle as the image was shearing and oscillating on the Notebook computer display due to unsteady seeing. The image is a little "grainy" as I was not able to stack multiple images due to the image continually distorting between frames due to the unsteady atmosphere. Oh well, I guess I'm lucky to have had the chance to get the 'scope out at all!

Vixen 4" refractor
Televue x5 PowerMate
Meade LPI

Single exposure of 0.012 secs
Curves and sharpening in Corel PhotoPaint.

Cheers

Dennis

iceman (Mike) · #2 21-08-2005, 01:55 PM

That's excellent Dennis! I was just right then looking at the Sun in MDI image on the left, thinking, hmm I should get out and image that.

Nice job, excellent quality on a single frame.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #3 21-08-2005, 02:21 PM

Nice spot Dennis. Gotta get me some baader film I think

Dennis · #4 21-08-2005, 04:35 PM

Thanks Guys

Baader film is great stuff...and you can get two flavours; one for visual and one for astrophotography only. The astro-only filter material really helps freeze the "seeing" when using high mag set ups such as the x5 Powermate.

I'll edit the original post and add a prime focus shot from the 20th Aug, so you can see the increased scale from using the TV x5 Powermate.

Cheers

Dennis