Quite a bit more sunspot activity since my last shot on the 6th October (I count 6 groups). Sunspots are slightly cooler than the surrounding 'photosphere' and are related to magnetic anomalies in the Suns plasma structure. Post processed with Adobe Phtoshop CS5 Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA Field Flattener, Home made Baader AstroSolar Photo Film Solar filter, Canon 40D DSLR field 106' x 159' , Ambient 19C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. No Guidescope used.
First test of Canon 70D with Baader BCF Astrophotography filter modification Captured with BackyardEOS 5X Planetary mode - 500 frames @ ISO1600 at auto shutter speed. Processed with Registax 6 with best 20% stacked, no wavelet processing. Further processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5. Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA Field Flattener, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter and homemade Baader Solarfilm objective filter, Canon 70D DSLR field 106' x 159' , Ambient 29C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 3.03 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. No Guidescope.
I happened to wake just before dawn, so grabbed the camera and hoped to find a few clouds for a bit of colour in the dawn sky. As there were none of significance, the best I could do was get the sun rising through the trees with f/ratio high enough to cause a star diffraction. Taken at Sheldrake Park, Willetton, W.A.
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