ATT Essen

Today attending the ATT In Essen (Germany), biggest astronomy fair in Europe.
Together with Walter and JC

Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades

A beautiful sunset followed by a amazing nightscape with the Moon, planet Mercury and the Pleiades.

Dynamic Sun with huge prominences

This morning I took some pictures of the sun using my SolarMaxIII (H-Alpha). Within a timeframe of 16 minutes the shape of the prominences changed dramatically.

For the first time I used flats for H-Alpha by using a plastic bag and adjusting histogram by changing the exposure time and gain  within SharpCap Pro. 

The SER 16bit file was stacked using AS3!. The resulted TIFF16 file was adjusted in IMPPG and CS4. Color was added in CS4 : Red 1.33, Green 0.44 and Blue 0.2.

Sun(day)

Observation of the Sun this morning with good seeing conditions.

All images taken with TAL200K f/8.5. The sundisk was imaged with ASI2600MC and sunspots AR2993/94 with ASI290MM.

Software : Sharpcap, AS3!, IMPPG, CS4.

IMPPG Software and Sunspot AR2993/94

 

I'm using IMPPG software for processing my solar images. See also this link for more information. It executes Lucy-Richardson deconvolution with great results.
So, after stacking my SER 16bit movies, I'm opening the Tif files in IMPPG. The result is a sharper and brighter Tif (or PNG,..) file which is finally edited using CS4.

Sunspot AR2993/94

 

Sunspot AR2993/94 this morning - April 23, 2022.

Setting : TAL200K f/8.5 with ASI290MM and ND5.0 (no OIII filter)

Software : Sharpcap (AVI 8bit), AS3!, IMPPG, CS4

Sunspot AR2993/94

No time during the week but this morning I made some time to capture the huge sunspots. Image of 

Sunspot AR2993/94 this morning (April 23) - forced false colour.

Setting : TAL200K f/8.5 with ASI290MM and ND5.0 and OIII filter

Software : Sharpcap (Ser 16bit), AutoStakkert3, IMPPG, CS4