Testing solar imaging through borrowed (Andrew Lockwood) Lunt 2" Solar (Herschel) Wedge. Unfortunately a promising morning turned into a cloudy afternoon! Consequently this was not as well focused as it could be and cloud is evident. There will be another day! Borrowed Lunt 2" Solar (Herschel) Wedge with 2" Polarising filter installed on my ED80 - from Andrew Lockwood Telescope - Skywatcher ED80 80/600 with Lunt 2" Solar (Herschel) Wedge, 2X 2" TeleVue PowerMate, Baader Polarizing filter, Canon 60D DSLR field 45' x 67' , Ambient ~30C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.1.9 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope (not in use) - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
Testing solar imaging through borrowed (Andrew Lockwood) Lunt 2" Solar (Herschel) Wedge. Having been clouded out the prior weekend, now that it was clear, there was no sunspot activity so didn't bother with polarizing filter. Borrowed Lunt 2" Solar (Herschel) Wedge (no Polarising filter) installed on my ED80 - from Andrew Lockwood Telescope - Skywatcher ED80 80/600 with Lunt 2" Solar (Herschel) Wedge, 2X 2" TeleVue PowerMate, Baader Polarizing filter, Canon 60D DSLR field 45' x 67' , Ambient ~30C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.1.9 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope (not in use) - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software. Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2018.
Captured with BackyardEOS 5X Planetary mode - 1000 frames @ ISO800 at 1/50 sec. Post Processed with Registax 6 to stack best 10% (100) frames and with Wavelet processing. Further processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 Telescope - Skywatcher ED80 80/600 with Televue 2" 4X PowerMate, 2" Baader Solar Contiuum filter, Lacerta 2" Herschel Wedge, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 32' x 21' , Ambient ~19C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.1.9 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro.
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