sunspot 1260 sat 30 july

[sungrazer (Karen)]

Day 2 of solar imaging.

I caught sunspot 1260 at 11 am this morning. Then captured some proms, then captured sunspot 1261 after its big flare - still processing that. The avi file is tooo large.... (another lesson for me - what do people use to clip/split them?)

Then caught space junk or satellite transiting sunspot 1260 at 4pm. (Single frames showing here - first frame shows satellite directly connecting to sunspot - beginners luck eh). Have been trying for hours to identify it without success. Any suggestions?

All with pst and dmk21au with 2x barlow. Basic registax processing no photoshop.

cheers
Karen

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Wow, what amazing luck to catch (and recognize) a satellite transit without planning for it!

Have you tried CalSky to try and identify it?

-Ivan

[sungrazer (Karen)]

Hi Ivan

Thanks for the suggestion.

I joined up - searched for ages.. couldn't find anything transiting the sun at 4pm sydney time. :-(

cheers
Karen

[Derek Klepp]

Great start Karen you've got some great detail there. There's a fair bit of activity at the moment look foward to more. Is your pst a single or double stack?

[asimov (John)]

Great captures Karen! Love that first image.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Hi Karen - you lucky thing! I was flicking through your images before I read the post and thought you have caught something there - well done!
Thanks for the views!

[csb (Craig)]

Excuse my igorance but wihich dot(s) is the space junk?

And I think for avi files you can split/sort with Virtualdub - freeware.

Good resolution with the PST + DMK - this is what i have but difficult to see that detail for me so far.

[sungrazer (Karen)]

Hi everyone

Thanks for the comments. Very motivating indeed :-)

Here is the 3rd day shot of my solar adventure. Quite a lot of cloud today so lucky i managed to get this at all.

I've changed the way i use the barlow. Instead of simply inserting the DMK into the barlow, I removed the lens of the barlow and attached it directly to the end of the shortened nosepiece. Lets me get more in the frame. plus now i know what its like when i get past focus - withe the barlow and dmk together i think i got focus at exactly at the end of range.

I also found out how to set the processing area on registax to 1024 instead of the 512 it was on. So i can keep all of the image. JOY

I've discovered wavelets too - so had a little play with that as well. Still no real idea what I am doing but its fun experimenting - i really like those aha moments that bring the image to life. I've colorised this one as well.. I've left the areas that have come up white i guess its over exposed etc etc etc -but i like the feeling of the effect..

So this is DMK 2x barlow and PST - this time with the double stack. The others were not double stacked. (boy it cuts out a lot of light).

Hope you enjoy it.
Karen

[asimov (John)]

Good stuff Karen. Yes I do that sometimes; screw the barlow elements straight onto the camera nosecone. This gives you less FR/FL & will also help in combating crook seeing conditions to a degree.

The other way with registax is to press "do all" before saving the final image.

Are you using version 6 of Registax?

[sungrazer (Karen)]

Hi Craig,

Excuse my igorance but wihich dot(s) is the space junk?

You have to look at the three last images - you can deduce it from the difference between the three - its very hard to see in the first one as it is appears to be touching the sunspot

And I think for avi files you can split/sort with Virtualdub - freeware.
thanks - my files are way too large and registax 6 doesn't handle them well.

Good resolution with the PST + DMK - this is what i have but difficult to see that detail for me so far.

Yes you don't get this on the laptop screen - I discovered today that the detail comes in wavelet processing.. ahh all the secrets i still have to discover.!

cheers
Karen

[sungrazer (Karen)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Good stuff Karen. Yes I do that sometimes; screw the barlow elements straight onto the camera nosecone. This gives you less FR/FL & will also help in combating crook seeing conditions to a degree.

The other way with registax is to press "do all" before saving the final image.

Are you using version 6 of Registax?

yes version 6. I cant see what the do all function does at this point?? I use it because it says to do it in the tutorial but i cant see any discernible impact.
thanks
cheers
K

[mexhunter (César)]

Hi Karen:
Nice images and very good capture. Congratulations!
Greetings
César

[csb (Craig)]

I found the satellite now.

So I need to process images to get that extra detail. OK maybe for learning later. The shots of the limb, you have here, are what I see on my laptop.

Thanks