Hi All,
I just processed some of the images from my Coronado SolarMax90/T-Max/BF30 first light. Well almost first light... it arrived Friday amidst the clouds, so while I was able to grab a few quick "wowie-ka-zowie!!!" peeks, there was no time to read the instructions (my eyes... my Gawd, my eyes!!!
) or take any snapshots. Ditto on the crummy weather for Saturday, and work held me hostage Sunday until the late afternoon, but....
I did get some visual time in with it (Oooooooh!!!) and managed to snap off a few pic's. There's gonna' be a little bit of a learning curve in approaching surface detail vs prominences... I thought the latter would need longer exposures than the surface, but it seems that just the opposite is true!?! The brighter levels needed to pick up the surface details seem to overwhelm the prom's (during imaging... not visual, where ya' do see it all!!!), which are still quite visible in exposures shortened sufficiently to reduce the surface glare. No biggie... I just have to tweak my approach.
You can view two of the reduced size images at (5" Tak', Nikon CP995, and 9mm Nagler EP):
http://www.astro-nut.com/sun-25-aug-02.html
Catch y'all later,
Paul
I just processed some of the images from my Coronado SolarMax90/T-Max/BF30 first light. Well almost first light... it arrived Friday amidst the clouds, so while I was able to grab a few quick "wowie-ka-zowie!!!" peeks, there was no time to read the instructions (my eyes... my Gawd, my eyes!!!
) or take any snapshots. Ditto on the crummy weather for Saturday, and work held me hostage Sunday until the late afternoon, but....I did get some visual time in with it (Oooooooh!!!) and managed to snap off a few pic's. There's gonna' be a little bit of a learning curve in approaching surface detail vs prominences... I thought the latter would need longer exposures than the surface, but it seems that just the opposite is true!?! The brighter levels needed to pick up the surface details seem to overwhelm the prom's (during imaging... not visual, where ya' do see it all!!!), which are still quite visible in exposures shortened sufficiently to reduce the surface glare. No biggie... I just have to tweak my approach.
You can view two of the reduced size images at (5" Tak', Nikon CP995, and 9mm Nagler EP):
http://www.astro-nut.com/sun-25-aug-02.html
Catch y'all later,
Paul
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