The Lunt40 certainly punches above its weight. I have just put a shorts collection of prominences together that I took with mine if you'd care to look 👍
Hi Ivana, That's a great tutorial! Just a note - if you keep the selection box small for your initial fine-tuning, you'll see L-R changes in real-time as you move the slider (and you can always draw the box around some other region of interest in the image). Also, since Feb last year, ImPPG can process RGB images (I've been using it on Jupiter to good effect) - go check out the latest version.
Thanks for the guidance on how to take and process hydrogen alpha images. As always your posts are interesting and helpful to aspiring astrophotographers like myself. I enjoy your presentations and always come away with new knowledge that I can put to use. Looking forward to a great summer of astronomy and more of your posts.
Nicely done once again! Another thing that can help with Facebook compression is to save your images as PNG files. This doesn't always work but more often than not gives you a better result.
Thanks! Yes that’s absolutely true. I do all my planetary in PNG but for some reason found the IMPPG PNG output a bit funny. Maybe I’ll find out down the line I’ve been doing something wrong all along 😄
@@CellistOnTheRoof Aha, OK, I mainly use Pixinsight for processing and creating the final image,. I also use Gimp and have noticed that the PNG's created by Gimp and Pixinsight can be quite different.
Thank you for sharing this useful info, I'm currently thinking of getting a 174 for my Lunt LS50 as the 290 I'm currently using doesn't give a full solar disc. Nice image by the way.
Hi, mine’s a Dell Inspiron, I think the main things you want are a a fast chip, lots of storage, and for it to be a PC rather than Mac. Gaming laptops usually do well!
I have just photographed the Sun in white light using Baader Solar Film and a 25 mm Pocket Borg refractor and loads of big sunspots .
The Lunt40 certainly punches above its weight. I have just put a shorts collection of prominences together that I took with mine if you'd care to look 👍
Excellent, thanks! 👍
Hi Ivana,
That's a great tutorial! Just a note - if you keep the selection box small for your initial fine-tuning, you'll see L-R changes in real-time as you move the slider (and you can always draw the box around some other region of interest in the image).
Also, since Feb last year, ImPPG can process RGB images (I've been using it on Jupiter to good effect) - go check out the latest version.
Thanks very much, all very good to know!
Thanks for the guidance on how to take and process hydrogen alpha images. As always your posts are interesting and helpful to aspiring astrophotographers like myself. I enjoy your presentations and always come away with new knowledge that I can put to use. Looking forward to a great summer of astronomy and more of your posts.
awesome catch! like the processing also! well done. thanks!
Thank you too!
Thank you for showing your process
Nicely done once again! Another thing that can help with Facebook compression is to save your images as PNG files. This doesn't always work but more often than not gives you a better result.
Thanks! Yes that’s absolutely true. I do all my planetary in PNG but for some reason found the IMPPG PNG output a bit funny. Maybe I’ll find out down the line I’ve been doing something wrong all along 😄
@@CellistOnTheRoof Aha, OK, I mainly use Pixinsight for processing and creating the final image,. I also use Gimp and have noticed that the PNG's created by Gimp and Pixinsight can be quite different.
Thank you for another excellent tutorial. I always find your tutorials easy to follow and very helpful.
Thanks! That’s really nice to hear.
Incredible! I have always been terrified to try this myself. Well done!!!
Thanks! You should go for it, now’s such a good time!
Thank you for sharing this useful info, I'm currently thinking of getting a 174 for my Lunt LS50 as the 290 I'm currently using doesn't give a full solar disc. Nice image by the way.
Thanks, really pleased if it can be useful! You’ll love the 174, it’s great.
I miss my solarmax 60
Quality graph not to bad !!!! Wow I rarely get 100f over 75% out of 20,000
It’s rare but it does happen! I think late morning is best time, high in the sky but before the air gets too hot.
Hi,
What kind of laptop specs do you think works well with a h-alpha imaging setup similar to yours?
Thanks.
Hi, mine’s a Dell Inspiron, I think the main things you want are a a fast chip, lots of storage, and for it to be a PC rather than Mac. Gaming laptops usually do well!
@@CellistOnTheRoof Do you think 8GB of RAM is adequate? Thanks again. 🙂
I’d say it would be okay but on the lower side, mine is 16!
Ok Lunt is better than CORONADO.