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Laboratorium Solaris: seeing is believing

How can we call this thing in the bottom left corner of the frame - the sprite? The ghost? The CME?

 

I have got dynamic range - 12 bits, no kidding! - but no luck with flatfielding yet...

 

WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!

 

Aquisition time (start of the session) : JD2456852,72667824 (14.07.2014 09:26:25 MSK).

Image orientation: west is down, I think

Equipment:

QHY5L-II monochrome CMOS camera via 2x Barlow lens on Coronado PST riding tuned motor-driven Celestron CG-4 EQ mount set over Vixen SX tabletop tripod and SX half-peir.

Aperture 40 mm

Native focal length 400 mm

Effective focal length 800 mm

Tv = 2 ms

Av = f/20

ISO NA

Gain 23 out 1000

Software: FireCapture

Exposures: about 400/800

Processing: camera was running in raw mode, producing 4096 shades of gray. The movie was saved in .ser file. Movie was processed in Autostakkert!2. Resulting image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 2,7 units, 5 iterations).

High-pass filtering was made and contrast adjustment were done in Photoshop.

Note: the Newton's rings are the primary problem now.

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Uploaded on July 14, 2014
Taken on July 14, 2014