Saturday, April 24, 2021

H-alpha imaging with AstroDMx Capture for Linux

A Coronado Solarmax II, 60, BF15 H-alpha scope was mounted on a Celestron AVX mount. A QHY 5L-II-M camera was placed at the focus.

AstroDMx Capture for Linux was used to capture 2 x 5000 frame SER files of two overlapping images of the Sun exposed for the disk and 2 x 1000 frame SER files were captured exposed for the prominences.

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Screenshots of AstroDMx Capture for Linux capturing H-alpha solar data



The SER files of the disk were stacked in Autostakkert! and combined in Microsoft ICE. The resulting images were wavelet process in Registax 6 and post processed in the gimp. The images were combined and finally processed in the Gimp 2.10.

H-alpha solar image

Colourised image to represent the wavelength being used


Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin


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