Monday, April 26, 2021

The solar disk in green continuum light; showing active regions AR2818 and AR282

A Bresser Messier-AR-102-xs/460 ED, f/4.5 refractor was fitted with a Photographic grade Baader solar filter (which is unsafe for eyepiece use) and mounted on a Celestron AVX mount.

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A ZWO ASI178MC camera was fitted with a Baader green solar continuum filter and placed at the focus of the scope.


AstroDMx Capture for Linux was used to capture data in Y800 mode as a mono, 5000-frame SER file


The best 25% of the data were stacked in Autostakkert!, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post processed in the Gimp 2.10.



Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin



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