Sunday, June 21, 2026

E-Corona woth Sol'Ex

Last year I tried a couple of times to capture the E-Corona of the Sun. This time, the Sun was higher in the sky and a UT noon time about 62°. Most of the time a blue sky with sometimes very dim high clouds. 

Setting:

TS/TLAPO 80/360 with ND filter and ASI290MM camerea
AZ/EQ6 mount
Solex Pro version with tilted continuum filter 
Camera temperature : 46°C
Seeing: moderate to poor
ROI Capture Area 1936x68
Tilt:-0,17°
Sx/Sy: 5,82
Binning 2x2
Exposure time: 1,79ms Gain 116
Frames per second : 550
Total scans : 105
Software: Sharpcap
Editing: Inti, JSOLEX, CS4, DeNoise AI

ImageMath by JSolex; setting by Cedric aswell as by Olivier. Below images are made using setting by Olivier.

Conclusion:

- use of tilted continuum filter makes it easy to find the area of interest (Fe XIV)
- impact of seeing conditions
- almost One hour of scanning, resulting in 105 images
- sky not all the time blue and transparent
- Sx/Sy to high; rate should be x32 in stead of x16
- some signal in the image but still to weak to really make the link with the E-corona