Proms - Saturday 22nd May 2010

Some great proms on the Sun this morning.
Images taken with TEC140, Baader 135mm D-ERF, Daystar 0.6A T-Scanner, Celestron f/6.3 focal reducer + DMK21 camera









Let's keep our fingers crossed for a great summer!

Regards,

Michael.

excellent detail Michael just processing mine now got some HA and w/l of that new AR too.....

DG

Gosh the sun is busy again , great proms , love the detail.
Did some sketches this morning , more tomorrow , the AR has great shapes
look forward to more fun with the sun.

Deirdre Kelleghan
Vice Chair IFAS

Amazing images there Michael ... well done, I was looking at those features earlier today using the Lunt.

You captured fab detail.

What settings are you using on the DMK?

Thanks Steve.

Fot these images, I am trying to capture both the disc and the proms in one capture. The reason for this is to capture the layer of spicules in between. It's easy enough to capture the disc and the proms as separate videos, but then it's difficult to piece the two together properly while keeping the spicules similar to hw they appear in a telescope.

For the above images, the settings I used with the DMK camera were:
Gain @ lowest setting;
Gamma @ around 150;
Adjust exposure until you get both the disc and proms.

FWIW, if just I wanted to capture the disc only:
Gain @ lowest setting;
Gamma @ around 50;
Keeping the gain down helps to minimise noise.

Hope this helps,

Michael.