This Summer weather is nowhere near what it used to be. There seems to be more and more cloud cover in recent years.
Climate change is a harsh reality!
Right, back to Sunday's adventures.
The equipment used was a s follows:
Skywatcher 102.
Canon 1200D.
Mallincam Hyper Colour and 7 inch monitor.
DIY solar filter.with baader solar film.
I started out by doing a bit of visual only and was enjoying the nice large sunspots AR 2644 and AR 2642.
Even in white light they are very clear and large!
Then I swapped out the eyepiece for the DSLR.
Took about 60 frames at 1/800 of a second at a ISO of 100. Saved to file and then popped in the Mallincam.
Again a short learning curve to figure out the settings for solar and I had a decent image on screen.
At this point I called my wife Trish out for a look, first in the eyepiece and then back to the cam.
She enjoys the monitor views far more than having to squint through a eyepiece!
So it was a great way to laze away a Sunday afternoon. Just the way I like it!
For the life of me I could not get registax 6 to align and stack the DSLR images. I could not get to the bottom of the problem since my Registax knowledge and skills are pretty poor!
So out of desperation I popped a single image into Star tools and set about processing that.
I was very surprised at the resulting image, probably one of the best I have taken to date.
Not sure what was different, I put it down to a purely lucky shot on a good day. I have not done any solar AP in a while so was happy with the results.
At some point over the next weekend I will revisit Registax and see if I can get those frames stacked etc.
So here is the image.
Thanks for reading and feel free to comment etc.
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