| Acquisition Date |
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January 15th, 2012 |
| Camera |
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Canon 40D |
| Camera Settings |
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1/4 second at 800 ISO. Capturing MONO Live View video w/ EOS_MOV_REC. |
| Telescope |
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Lunt Solar Systems LS69THa w/ B1200 blocking filter |
| Mount |
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Losmandy G-11 mounted in a Skyshed POD XL3 |
| Adapter / Prime / Afocal / Other |
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Prime focus w/ 2.5x Tele Vue Powermate inline |
| Processing Package / Processing Applied |
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Registax 6 Align, Stack and wavelets.
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Colorization and final tweaking. |
| Web Site |
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http://solaractivity.shutterfly.com/ |
| NOTES |
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This mosiac was a huge project. I started out by capturing 3 images. I called them left, center and right. Each was shot back to back and consisted of 4,000 frames each. Since my Canon 40D only captures at a rate of ~ 20fps, it took about 4 minutes to capture each image.
Then I took each image and aligned, stacked and applied wavelets in Registax 6.
Then I opened each image in Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 and created a prominence layer by brightening to bring out the faint wispy atmosphere and saving as...
Then I opened the original images again and stretched them to bring out the washed out surface detail.
Then I merged the two, to get my final subs, which were stitched in Photoshop, then colorized and finalized. |
