Additional Solar work from July 30th session: This is uncropped but pixel boasted to get additional data to bump and grind on. Shot with the Lunt 60mm Pressure tuned solar scope and...

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

This is uncropped but pixel boasted to get additional data to bump and grind on.
Shot with the Lunt 60mm Pressure tuned solar scope and Celestron 236M monochrome CMOS camera.
This is a 2 minute video processed in AutoStakkert2 using 310 frames of a 3150 frame video.
Wavelets lightly tweaked in Registax6 and color enhancement and pixel boast to 400 Pixels per inch in Photoshop CC.
All in all not to bad.
Jim

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bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

This is uncropped but pixel boasted to get additional data to bump and grind on.
Shot with the Lunt 60mm Pressure tuned solar scope and Celestron 236M monochrome CMOS camera.
This is a 2 minute video processed in AutoStakkert2 using 310 frames of a 3150 frame video.
Wavelets lightly tweaked in Registax6 and color enhancement and pixel boast to 400 Pixels per inch in Photoshop CC.
All in all not to bad.
Jim

I like the masked surface. bwa

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Interesting as it looks like a perfect moment in a total eclipse.
Sortta, kinda, well I think.....

northcoast42 Loc: Puget Sound, Washington

Nice! Love the detail on the prominences.

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

This is uncropped but pixel boasted to get additional data to bump and grind on.
Shot with the Lunt 60mm Pressure tuned solar scope and Celestron 236M monochrome CMOS camera.
This is a 2 minute video processed in AutoStakkert2 using 310 frames of a 3150 frame video.
Wavelets lightly tweaked in Registax6 and color enhancement and pixel boast to 400 Pixels per inch in Photoshop CC.
All in all not to bad.
Jim

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

bwana wrote:

I like the masked surface. bwa

Thank you.
I have done this on a few others that I really wanted to highlight the prominences on.
Slowly I am getting better.
Jim

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

SonnyE wrote:

Interesting as it looks like a perfect moment in a total eclipse.
Sortta, kinda, well I think.....

Just missing all of the fun bright shiny stuff. So nahhhhh not really..

Thank you though.
Jim

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

northcoast42 wrote:

Nice! Love the detail on the prominences.

Thank you very much.
Jim

kelso007 Loc: Circle Pines Minnesota

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

This is uncropped but pixel boasted to get additional data to bump and grind on.
Shot with the Lunt 60mm Pressure tuned solar scope and Celestron 236M monochrome CMOS camera.
This is a 2 minute video processed in AutoStakkert2 using 310 frames of a 3150 frame video.
Wavelets lightly tweaked in Registax6 and color enhancement and pixel boast to 400 Pixels per inch in Photoshop CC.
All in all not to bad.
Jim

I don't know much about astrophotography but I really like this photo.
Dave

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

This is uncropped but pixel boasted to get additional data to bump and grind on.
Shot with the Lunt 60mm Pressure tuned solar scope and Celestron 236M monochrome CMOS camera.
This is a 2 minute video processed in AutoStakkert2 using 310 frames of a 3150 frame video.
Wavelets lightly tweaked in Registax6 and color enhancement and pixel boast to 400 Pixels per inch in Photoshop CC.
All in all not to bad.
Jim

Is there something you're doing with AutoStakkert2(or 3) that makes it work!? If I tried to stack 10% (or probably less than 50%) of a video's frames, the result would totally fall apart, i.e.: it would look like a Picasso painting with pieces chopped out, obvious join lines, different color hunks, etc. I also have trouble simply keeping 3 running with about 50% of my attempted runs crashing. It simply disappears, no warning, no error messages, just kaput, gone!

I like AutoStakkert's interface and approach to alignment and stacking BUT I've almost given up using it due to its instabilities...

bwa

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

kelso007 wrote:

I don't know much about astrophotography but I really like this photo.
Dave

Thank you very much.
I try different things and bounce them off the wall here.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

bwana wrote:

Is there something you're doing with AutoStakkert2... (show quote)

Here are some screen shots of one of my sessions.
They might help.
Also make sure you are using 2.6.8 since that is the most stable.
Jim

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