EQ3-mod, mountpusher, Sharpstar 60/330 ED-APO, Lunt CaK B600 LS6CAKMDS2, ASI 178MM (cooled)
EQ3-mod, mountpusher, Lunt LS60T Ha B600, ASI 178MM (cooled)
The Sun on 2023-01-04, in CaK and Hα
The Sun on 2023-01-04, in Solar Continuum
EQ3-mod, mountpusher, Baader Astrosolar ND3.8 Film, TS-Optics 76/342 TS76EDPH, Baader Solar Continuum 7.5 nm 1.25″, ASI 178MM (cooled)
The Moon on 2023-01-04
ASI 485MC (cooled), UV/IR cut, Skywatcher 72/420 ED-APO, mountpusher, EQ3-mod
A black Sun on 2023-01-06, in CaK
In order to obtain my hallmark blue-violet-ish Sun, with the active regions as white, I obtain the brighter-than-average information, long story short, this picture below. While this is usually nothing more than the saturation layer negative I use, now I publish it, cause why not, it looks awesome. Actually, I’ve seen quite many „black suns” that were negatives, curved in weird ways, especially for hydrogen alpha, a sloppy way to deal with the prominences that are much fainter than the bright limb. The Sun below is neither. It is >>the Sun<< in normal light, minus the boring part, which I also posted, for reference.
EQ3-mod, mountpusher, Sharpstar 60/330 ED-APO, Lunt CaK B600 LS6CAKMDS2, ASI 178MM (cooled)
Sunshine with a Plane, 2023-01-06
Coincidentally this was the first light of my soapbox guider’s newest version, which automatically applies predefined instrument image transformations, to make sure the buttons move the celestial object’s camera image as intended, left is left, without cognitive load, regardless of the zenith flipping, zenith mirror etc. EQ3-mod, mountpusher, Lunt LS60T Ha B600, ASI 178MM (cooled)
