The Sun and the Moon

A DMK21AS camera, fitted with a focal reducer and a medium length nosepiece was attached to a Solarmax 60 ll, BF15 H-alpha solar scope. The focal reduction allows the DMK to image the whole disk in a single image. Two, 5000 frame AVIs were captured; one exposed for the disk and the other exposed for the prominences. The AVIs were stacked in Registax to produce two images The two images were combined to produce a single image:

AR1723 was imaged by using a 2.5x Barlow:

The solar disk was also imaged by capturing 4 overlapping AVIs at the prime focus of a Ca K-line PST solar scope. The images were stitched together to produce a single image of the disk in Ca K-line light:

Eyepiece-projection was used to image the 63% waxing Gibbous Moon tonight. A Pentax K-x DSLR was used with a 20mm plossl eyepiece and an f/5, 6" Newtonian to produce 3 overlapping images of the Moon which were stitched together to produce the final image. Click on the image to get a larger view:

Steve Wainwright