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Old 18-January-2005, 01:59 AM
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HI ALL,

Here is my Sunspot closeup taken today 1/17/05. We had horrible seeing, not to mention -2F, I couldn't stay out there for long.


I used an old Meade electronic eyepiece attached to my old 10" F6.3 SCT

it barely fit in the FOV. I then captured the composite video out to an old high 8 sony camcorder.

Then captured the video with an ATI Wonder Pro capture card, to my PC as an AVI file. I captured this video and imported it into Registax 3, which stacked 392 frames.

Here is the resulting image, although its not bad, lots of detail, it could have been better had it the seeing been better.

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Old 18-January-2005, 04:23 AM
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Thanx John,

I think it's a terrific image.
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Old 18-January-2005, 08:56 AM
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That's a great shot..
Your thread title and subject reminded me of an ebay ad though
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Old 19-January-2005, 12:00 AM
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A news story I stumbled on when surfing ealier:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6839388/
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Old 21-January-2005, 01:30 AM
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Galactic Nice image, I just got a solar filter for my scope, thanks to e-bay. I have not had a chance to use it but I know I will soon. Keep them coming, great stuff.
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Old 29-January-2005, 10:44 AM
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yet another story and some amateur SOHO (lol) shot of your sunspot "720"

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/stor...oon_050128.html
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:blink: Cor blimey! what a truly amazing picture of sun spot. Looks like you were millions miles up in space to get that, your very clever indeed. Many congratulations!. Good on yah!.
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Old 12-February-2005, 01:28 AM
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Galactic2000 could you post a single frame so I, and others, can see the quality you gained through the frame stacking?
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Old 12-February-2005, 03:40 AM
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Wow, that's a pretty decent picture, I couldn't do it...hahah, keep 'em coming
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Old 12-February-2005, 10:20 PM
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Active Region 10720 or sunspot 720 survived a full circuit of the sun but by now has shrunk to the point of invisibility.

http://www.spaceweather.com/index.cgi view February 9

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