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Old 08-06-2012, 05:30 AM
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Venus transit with Lunt 152mm H-alpha scope

Hi All,

Here is my take on the transit. Auckland Stardome recently acquired a beautiful Lunt 152mm H-alpha solar scope which I had the pleasure to play with last weekend It's also equipped with a Flea2 1600x1200.
I was at work during the transit, but the volunteers at Stardome captured 1 frame/sec for the purpose of automatically processing the best frames and publishing them live on their website.
I now got the raw data and had a go at combining the best frames into this image. It's only a stack of 100 frames, plus a seperate stack of 32 frames with Venus near 2nd contact, but still a nice view I think.

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Old 08-06-2012, 05:33 AM
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Nice Rolf! I can see a few processing/stitch lines but a lovely result.
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Old 08-06-2012, 05:58 AM
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Thanks Mike, yes I'm actually not sure why the lines are there because all the frames were nearly identical so no stitching was done...
Last weekend I took a full disc image with the same scope which turned out much better: http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/image/143731663/original

I now have access to this lovely scope so I might venture into solar imaging too, exciting!
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Top shot Rolf. Looks like you’ve found a daytime extension to your night time hobby with the discovery of that ‘scope!

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Top shot Rolf. Looks like you’ve found a daytime extension to your night time hobby with the discovery of that ‘scope!

Cheers

Dennis
Thank you Dennis, it was great fun to try this. I have dabbled in solar imaging before with the ToUCam, but nothing at all like this.
BTW I really enjoy your white light shots, the detail is so impressive, keep it up!
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That looks hot Rolf. Lovely colors.
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Old 15-06-2012, 05:58 PM
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Nice scope and some pretty good results. Going through the process of upgrading to a much larger scope right now, the 152 is definitely outside of my budget but did consider it for a moment or two.
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