The solar show

Hello everyone,

the sun is really giving out a great show these days . As you can see from Mike's posts even today has been a very busy day for our star

This is a shot from yesterday. I have a few movies and this is the first one: I hope some of the others will yield better results, although I'm quite content with this one

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Hi Luca -

That's a superbly detailed and beautifully processed shot. Your Copernicus and other recent solar images look great too. Keep up the great work.

best -
Alan

Great shot Gianluca! 8)
I saw this yesterday with my PST, it was wonderful!


Thanks for sharing!

Hi Luca,

You are getting very! good at solar imaging, excellent! image.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Truly Magnificent. Enough said.

Jim Phillips

Hello guys

I could not process the larger image because of a parasite luminosity. I hope to get rid of it in other sequences I captured with different exposure times. However here is a detail of the larger part of the prominence where the parasite was not so invasive and I could work on the levels to emphasize all the prominence. this has also been enlarged to 150%.

Ciao

Luca

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Increedible Luca! I'm sure that you were quite happy with that image. 8) I hope to be joining the ranks of you solar imagers soon if i can only get my ST2K to focus with the FS-102, SM60 combo!

Still processing the same prominence which is to me one of the best I've ever seen and imaged. These 2 shot are from different sequences with different exposure times. Alas the parasite luminosity is there to stay. I checked with other Coronado users and it seems that it is a common problem with Barlow lenses (even though the Baader FFC is not a proper barlow, they say). This would also explain why the Powermates seem not to create the problem since they are not barlow lenses but some sort of eyepiece projection device. To further confirm this last fact about Powermates, I tried for the first time my solar prism and, while there was no way to bring it to focus with the FFC (3X), all my Powermates (2.5, 4. and 5X) reached focus without problems.

However here is the first picture and the other in the next post.

Ciao guys

Luca

Still raining big time here :C We have hopes for Monday.

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