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[LarryAlvarez]

This was a good weekend for shooting for me.  Weather was seemingly turning into fall and had a slight chill to it.  I spent some time cleaning off my scopes, barlows, and sensors to get the images.  Below are a few from the set. 

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[GSteve]

Superbe! 
 

A few questions:

 

1- The images seem a bit on the dark side but my inexperience might be showing here

2- I’m really curious as to the setup you have to get these beautiful close up shots

[gstrumol]

Beautiful shots Larry!

[hornjs]

Yeah, terrific shots Larry!  Was this with the SCT?  I can't recall your setup.

[SedonaRona]

“Holy crap” is what I just said out loud when this page loaded. Wow.

[rigel123]

Nice ones Larry!

[groom]

Excellent,Larry!

[EdFromNH]

Those really came out great.

[LarryAlvarez]

Thanks guys.  I've been shooting for about 30 years now and recently did a lot of tune in my filters over the past couple weeks using both a spectrum lamp and good old fashion multi shot comparison.  My setup consists of both Lunt filters and Coronado filters.  I usually use a Lunt 230 refractor for the close ups and a Coronado filters/scopes for the full disks or medium close ups.  I also use a Celestron Omni barlow, TV 2.5x Powermate, or Takahashi 2x Barlow (I just got this and its built odd but works good).  I usually shoot from 1.5 to 2tb a day, per laptop, when its clear and I'm not working.  Most of my stuff comes from the CN classifieds or Astromart classifieds.  I usually pick up old stuff that I find cheap and recondition it.   You'd be surprised at what you can get if you keep a close eye on what pops up.  You have to watch out for scams though as I've seen a few pop up lately on Astromart.  I use mostly Imaging Source cameras but have a couple QHY sensors as well.  I've been warming up to QHY's 8mp mono sensor.  It's kind of a touch nut to crack and doesn't have a large range to play with but does really good on speed and area for me.  The scope was shooting a really deep <0.5 ang so the features have a lot of contrast to them and there were a lot of bright hot spots and flaring going on this weekend that kept blooming the location if I turned up the gain too much.  I ended up catching a flare in action and am working on that video now.  I do have a large ERF and could use my 250 mewlon but have yet to find the right rear filter at the right price. 

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[GSteve]

Thanks for all that detail! (Image and hardware wise!    ).

[LarryAlvarez]

Here is the link to the flaring action that occurred while I was shooting a Sunspot.   Flare

[hornjs]

Holy cow that animation is superb Larry!

 

Here is the link to the flaring action that occurred while I was shooting a Sunspot.   Flare

[gstrumol]

Here is the link to the flaring action that occurred while I was shooting a Sunspot.   Flare

  

[HPaleske]

... Superb processed!

 

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Edited by HPaleske, 09 September 2024 - 02:35 PM.

[LarryAlvarez]

Thanks everyone! 

[rigel123]

Here is the link to the flaring action that occurred while I was shooting a Sunspot.   Flare

Awesome!