First test of Thousand Oaks solar filter with 8" PowerNewt. Backyard EOS 5X with 70D and at f/8 (F=1600mm) gives reasonable detail in the sunspots, however focus is not sharp. Also see 1X BackYardEOS. BackyardEOS in 5X Planetary Mode 500 frames ISO 100 1/50 Sec Registax 6 Stacked best 100 Images with wavelet processing Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with TeleVue 2X 2" PowerMate for f/8, Thousand Oaks solar filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 32' x 48' , Ambient 20C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.0.3 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
First test of Thousand Oaks solar filter with 8" PowerNewt. Backyard EOS 5X with 70D and at f/4 (F=800mm) gives reasonable detail in the sunspots and is much better than 1X (not shown as too low a pixel resolution). BackyardEOS in 5X Planetary Mode 500 frames ISO 100 1/200 Sec Registax 6 Stacked best 100 Images with wavelet processing Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with Baaded MPCC Coma Corrector, Thousand Oaks solar filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 64' x 95' , Ambient 20C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.0.3 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
First test of Thousand Oaks solar filter with 8" PowerNewt. Backyard EOS 5X with 70D and at f/2.84 (F=568mm) gives reasonable detail in the sunspots and is much better than 1X (not shown as too low a pixel resolution). BackyardEOS in 5X Planetary Mode 500 frames ISO 100 1/400 Sec Registax 6 Stacked best 100 Images with wavelet processing Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with PowerNewt(ASA) f/2.84 Reducer/Coma Corrector, Thousand Oaks solar filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 90' x 134' , Ambient 20C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.0.3 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
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