Solar - help!

[Skyhawk (Justin)]

I tried some solar work today, I've got Jerry Lodriguss' "book" on planetary imaging and have tried to follow it to the tee.
However I'm shooting with a Canon 5D3 and not a 60D or 550D with movie crop mode, I'm obviously ending up with images that are only 1920 pixels wide, and for the life of me cannot pull up the kind of detail I am seeing in some your guys images.
I put a 2xbarlow on took it off of prime focus, this was now too close and couldn't get the entire solar disc in the frame.
Where am I going wrong? how are you guys shooting proms, some of the images I see on this forum look like they were not shot as mov files as the detail is something I could only pull out my camera in stills mode?

http://astropix.co.za/solar/sun_final1.jpg

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Justin,
Good and bad news....
The shot you have is pretty good for a white light shot with a DSLR.
To image the Ha detail like filaments and prominences you need to use a specialised Ha solar telescope. These use extremely complicated and expensive Fabry-Perot etalon filter assemblies.
The cheapest starting points are the smaller Lunt or Coronado scopes.

99% of the "best" sloar images are taken with mono video webcams ie DMK etc. Using Registax (or similar) to select and stack the best frames (probably only 50/1000) and then gentle sharpening with wavelets.....

[Skyhawk (Justin)]

Thanks for the reply...I figured it had to be something WAY different to what I was doing. But thanks again...