First Sunnage for 2012!

[sheeny (Al)]

Here's the first images of Sol that I've captured this year. @%&$ weather...

More images to come, but processing has been delayed while I dig out some space on my laptop HDD...

Al.

[Derek Klepp]

Good to see you getting some Sun Al.

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by Derek Klepp

Good to see you getting some Sun Al.

I'll say!



Al.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Thanks for sharing the image Al. It's a ripper. I love what you do.

[sheeny (Al)]

Thanks Jeanette. I'll try to get some more processed tonight and upload in the morning.

Al.

[h0ughy (David)]

I love seeing the sun shine from a place where its better being dark

ripper of an image Al.

BTW your collimation application is worth my weight in gold, between Scott and myself we collimated the meade 14 in less than 3 min. Fantastic

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Well done mate!
Nicely processed as well!

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

I love seeing the sun shine from a place where its better being dark

ripper of an image Al.

BTW your collimation application is worth my weight in gold, between Scott and myself we collimated the meade 14 in less than 3 min. Fantastic

No worries, that's excellent.

Originally Posted by Merlin66

Well done mate!
Nicely processed as well!

Thanks Ken. Now all I've got to do is get back into spectroscopy and gets some clear skies at night.



Al.

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Nice processing on that one Al. Pickings have been slim for sure!

Ted

[sheeny (Al)]

Thanks Ted.

Here's the rest of the set that I processed last night. I did some experimenting with wavelets on these.

No2 is made from my reference frames so its a stack of just 10 frames for each half of the mosaic.

Al.

[sheeny (Al)]

Last one.



Al.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

really good images Al. regards Ray

[iceman (Mike)]

Very nice Al!
Is that a mosaic or can you capture the entire disc in 1 frame?

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

really good images Al. regards Ray

Thanks Ray.

Originally Posted by iceman

Very nice Al!
Is that a mosaic or can you capture the entire disc in 1 frame?

Mosaic. I can just get the disc across the width of the frame so a full disc is a mosaic of 2 stacks.



Al.

[Paul Haese]

Nice image Al. Sol has been rather quiet of late and I suspect we have already seen maximum for this cycle. Each day now is under 100 for spot count and three months ago it was nearing 200. That is a shame if that is the case.

Cloudy here today and quite cold. Lovely global warming.

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice image Al. Sol has been rather quiet of late and I suspect we have already seen maximum for this cycle. Each day now is under 100 for spot count and three months ago it was nearing 200. That is a shame if that is the case.

Cloudy here today and quite cold. Lovely global warming.

Yeah I thought it didn't look as busy as it was before Christmas. I hope maximum hasn't been and gone....

As for global warming... what do you expect... these new high efficiency fluoros don't put out as much heat as the old globes.

Al.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Nice stuff Al! It has been a frustrating time of late!
I like the proms you captured.

[sheeny (Al)]

Thanks Matt. The proms were only captured at prime focus of the ED80 so they should be sharp. I was having a few issues with ICCapture at the time and gave up before capturing any proms with the 2.5x Powermate in the train... it turns out my HDD was nearly full anyway (hence the problem with ICCapture). It just wasn't going to happen.

Al.