The Sun and an 84% waning, gibbous Moon

A Pentax K-x DSLR was fitted with a 300mm lens and mounted on a fixed tripod. 20 RAW images at ISO 800 were captured in rapid succession and stacked in Registax 5 to produce the final image. Click on an image to get a larger view.

A DMK21AS camera was used with a focal reducer and a short adapter and a Solarmax ll 60 BF15 H-alpha scope to capture the whole disk. The image was colourised to represent the wavelength used:

During imaging, an interesting transit occurred:

The focal reducer was removed and four overlapping areas of the Sun were imaged and stitched together into a final image:

Steve Wainwright