Hello everyone, and forgive me for breaking up the beatiful sequence of Mars images: It is, after all, a great event.
After many days of rain and then very thick fog today the sun made it through to my chip.
It is official: in white light the sun is totally asleep. A great white immaculate (and a little boring) ball. In the light of H-alpha, the situation isn't that much better: only a long filament and a few quiescent prominences. I captured something that may have been indicative of a small activity, but I can't be sure as I haven't yet processed the sequence.
I then tried to image this nice little "prominences' field" showing a very intricate central structure that captured my attention. There was a much bigger prominence, but I liked this one better
I used my max focal length here (approx 2050 mm @ F22.5): I should have had a 4X barlow to bring it at least at 3200 mm @ F36
I have a 5X, but believe that the Coronado BF30 is for focal length within 3000 mm and a 5X would get my system beyond 4000.
The image was aligned and stacked in registax (300/1000 stacked) and processed entirely in Photoshop (no wavelets, only levels and UM). Hope you like it.
Ciao
Luca 8)
After many days of rain and then very thick fog today the sun made it through to my chip.
It is official: in white light the sun is totally asleep. A great white immaculate (and a little boring) ball. In the light of H-alpha, the situation isn't that much better: only a long filament and a few quiescent prominences. I captured something that may have been indicative of a small activity, but I can't be sure as I haven't yet processed the sequence.
I then tried to image this nice little "prominences' field" showing a very intricate central structure that captured my attention. There was a much bigger prominence, but I liked this one better
I used my max focal length here (approx 2050 mm @ F22.5): I should have had a 4X barlow to bring it at least at 3200 mm @ F36
I have a 5X, but believe that the Coronado BF30 is for focal length within 3000 mm and a 5X would get my system beyond 4000.The image was aligned and stacked in registax (300/1000 stacked) and processed entirely in Photoshop (no wavelets, only levels and UM). Hope you like it.
Ciao
Luca 8)
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