Laboratorium Solaris: the value of the weather

The solar season is completely on :)

Nice calm morning air, no ripples, just occasional gentle pushes of the wind, which don't distort, but just slightly displace the image... The dream!!

 

Acquisition time: 15.03.2016 around 08:45 MSK.

North is up and a bit to the right, East is left.

TIS DMK 23U274 on Coronado PST via 2x Barlow lens.

15 panels (9 is enough, but I decided to help ICE with extra data and it payed off) 800x800 pixels (another novelty, helps to get better, more uniform illumination for flat-fielding), 200 out 1000 frames for each.

Processed in AS!2 with bag-flat :)

Stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved and wavelet sharpened in AstraImage 3.0 PRO (D: Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 9 iterations, WL: 1-10-15-10-1). Contrast enchancement, masking-blending and double hi-pass filtering in PS.

 

And a heap of Quark data to play with later!!!

 

Upd: I have reprocessed the image, removed some rough stiching, and believe me - this one is better than v1.0 :)

 

Done