Lucky imaging of the sun today 24 June 2022

[Averton (P and C)]

Lucky in as much as even seeing the sun, albeit very briefly. Needless to say the gap in the clouds was very small and we didn't get any time to tune or tilt the camera resulting in some banding on the bottom of the disk. We were just happy to be able to catch a glimpse of that giant filament (now prom) on the western limb.

[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

Awesome!

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

Yep, great images and lovely detail, very lucky indeed if you know what you're doing, well done to you both.

[Tinderboxsky (Steve)]

Fabulous.

[Averton (P and C)]

Thanks Bob, Jeff and Steve - appreciated

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by Averton

Lucky in as much as even seeing the sun, albeit very briefly. Needless to say the gap in the clouds was very small and we didn't get any time to tune or tilt the camera resulting in some banding on the bottom of the disk. We were just happy to be able to catch a glimpse of that giant filament (now prom) on the western limb.

Looks impressive but it would be helpful if you could mention your gear.
I want to get into solar imaging so folk listing what they used would help me and presumably others.

Alex

[Averton (P and C)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

Looks impressive but it would be helpful if you could mention your gear.
I want to get into solar imaging so folk listing what they used would help me and presumably others.

Alex

Apologies Alex.
These images were taken with a Daystar Solar Scout DS60 with some modifications. We have added a Lunt 40mm etalon to the front of the Solar Scout to make it double stacked. This simply means that it has two narrow band Ha filters that can be tuned independently. In addition we have a modified ZWO tilt adapter to mount an ASI178MM mono camera. The reason for the modification is that the standard tilt adapter adds too much back focus length to the camera which is outside of the focus travel of the Daystar scope. ie. not enough inward focus. If you are intending to do Ha imaging we would recommend that you looked at the ASI174MM camera instead of the 178MM as it is more suited to solar imaging. Hope this helps.