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You've got some cracking proms, especially that at 10 o'clock. I might use that as a chat up line! :D :D :D But seriously, thank you, Im just at the begining of my own imaging journey (I say at the beginning....Ive been at this for 5 years now and only just begining to get any kind of images....be ...

Thanks Robin "for solar flats, you should take them with the telescope pointing so that you are looking at the middle of the sun (sun filling frame without the flat cover attached). " So Assuming I cannot get the whole disk in one shot, do I select a ROI that fills my screen with sun (effe...

Hello everyone, please don't laugh at this silly question, when doing imaging (Solar or Planetary or DSO - But this question mainly relates to Solar) Lets say I am imaging a particular prominense on the Sun............ - If I have achieved focus and am happy with my framing, I then want to take Imag...

My first serious attempt at a Mosaic taken today, 4 Panels, Used the Sharpcap Mosaic Feature, worked well! Lunt60 THa with QHY462C, Autostaker 4, Afinity Photo to create the panorama and process colours. Really pleased with my (Almost) first attempt but realise I have a long way to go. FullDiskSharp...

Hi All (Admin, I was not sure where to post this so please feel free to move to more appropriate forum if its not suited to this one) I needed to replace the O rings on m Lunt60 THa. Bresser (UK) sent me replacement O rings (Charged 10 euros plus 6 euros delivery - which is fair enough I guess) Howe...

Here is my first attempt at a Solar Mosaic using the Solar Mosaic Tool in Sharpcap. Shot this morning with a Lunt60 THa, QHY5III462C, Stacked and aligned in Astrosurface and made into a Mosaic (Panorama) by Afinity (V1) then re tuned in Astrosurface again to bring out detail. Gain=165, Exposure=0.52...

Hi All, 2 images taken today. (I can only post one of them for some reason??? Oh Well, just the one then :) ) QHY462C Lunt60THA PromA settings = Gain=477 Exposure=0.5165ms Close Up Settings= Gain=99 Exposure=0.5165ms Stacked in Autostacker4, Wavelets in Registax6 and final processing in Afinity Phot...

Hi, well done on your first image! My technique for flat frames when capturing solar images is to use translucent plastic over the front of the telescope to diffuse the light from the sun. One option is the plastic inner bag from a breakfast cereal packet, which is often translucent. Another is tha...

Its taken me 5 years, countless swear words, A huge amount of frustration and a boat load of dosh that I daren't tell the missus about! but I have finally managed to get a picture of a celectial object! (The Sun).......Now if only I can stay awake beyond 8.30 of an evening I might move on to the moo...

Update....... I managed a short period imaging the other day and was over the moon to actually see something resembling the sun on my Laptop! (I didn't manage to capture any images, but almost there..... ;) ) I need to work on my Focus and Fine Tuning, but am so pleased that after 5 years trying to ...