I don't often do the Sun as I find it really tricky, plus can never be bothered to de-rig the mount to put the PST on, but I happened to acquire a spare mount which gave me the opportunity and on Monday a had a good "go" at it. I know it has some imperfections and I think I need to use a barlow next time to improve the resolution, but I think it is my best effort so far.
Mosaic of approximately 6 panes
Captured on 4th March
PST, DMK21, CG5 GT
Back garden, Captured in sharpcap
Processed in Registax and Photoshop CS3
(http://www.caroleastronomy.webspace.virginmedia.com/_wp_generated/wp58e806b7_0f.jpg)
That's a great result Carole!
What do you mean by "approximately 6 panes"?
Do you mean it might have been 5 or 7 instead but you can't be sure even though you've just finished the processing? :cheesy:
Mark
That's really good Carole.
Isn't the DMK21 a mono camera?
Nice image Carole.
I can just make out 5 panes.
Thanks Mike, yes I was advised by some regular solar imagers on UKAI to image the Sun in Mono and add false colour, so that's what I did, and I remember now they also advised me to use a barlow (which I forgot), gosh that will mean a mosiac of even more panes.
Hi Mark, I combined top left, bottom right, bottom left, top right, but also added about two or three others into the mix as there were some dust bunnies I needed to remove. because I flattened the image as I went along I lost count.
I also did some images for the prominences, but I don't think I did a good job of it and as I didn't finish until around 11pm last night, thought I would leave them until I get back from IOW (if they are any good).
Carole
QuoteI can just make out 5 panes.
Thanks Julian, well in that case it must be six because I did one area twice as there was a bit I was not happy with.
Carole
Carole I've noticed you very rarely provide a link to the full sized image. Any chance you can do that with your images please? Thanks.
I don't really have a full size link Mike, I linked this straight from my website. Only way I could get a full size is if I upload it to the gallery. To be honest because I didn't use the barlow the resolution full size is not that great.
N.B. I have replaced the original image as I missed a bit on the sky background when I had to re-darken it after colorising the Sun.
Full size link added (whoops I can now see a join :cheesy:)
http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10047/Sun_Mosaic_March_29013.png
Carole