PST Solar 25th March 2013

[asimov (John)]

Seeing was pretty damned nice this arvo @ 3PM. I stuffed this up a bit. Uneven illumination across the board. A restack coming up!

PST/DMK21 11 pane mosaic.

[asimov (John)]

Take two. I can restack until the cows come home but I can't fix the gradients 'cause it happened at capture time..Lesson learnt!

[Quark (Trevor)]

Reckon your being hypercritical Asi, speaking as a planetary imager, this looks quite fine to me.

Cheers
Trevor

[sheeny (Al)]

Yep. Gotta be careful with tuning the etalon in the PST... its easy to get a gradient or a hot spot or band, but once you find the sweet spot.... The gradients don't look to bad to me, John. You've done well to hide them I think.

The second one looks better to me.

Al.

[asimov (John)]

Thanks Trevor. I knew there was more in the image that's all, sharpening & better colour wise.

Thanks Al, & you are correct. I've been at the sweet spot for weeks but today I tried for the unattainable 'SUPER sweet spot' lol.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Top result from here John, but I no planet imager , ,

Originally Posted by asimov

I've been at the sweet spot for weeks but today I tried for the unattainable 'SUPER sweet spot' lol.

And this is exactly why

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Think you have reached Warp factor 9- she wont take much more John.
I quiet like the first image, but cant see much wrong with either of them.

[U.K.Cowboy (Stuart)]

Super image John! You are certainly churning out some cracking images at the moment!

[asimov (John)]

Thanks Ralph. Yes the first one is ok but decided to give it a bit more contrast/unsharpmasking.

Thanks Stuart. Not bad seeing & a lovely little scope..