Sun / 1st light with my 2600mc pro (Dale Penkala)

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Sun / 1st light with my 2600mc pro

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Sun / 1st light with my 2600mc pro

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Well the last 2 weeks here in Michigan have just been nothing but clouds at night with a few cloud breaks here and there. Just enough to get my new 2nd AP1200GTO mount installed in my observatory and work the bugs out of the system. So far I think I'm pretty set to actually do some imaging with the mount and my new ZWO 2600mc pro camera. Today was clear so I decided to do a quick solar run with it and my white light solar filter on my Esprit100. Pretty happy with this image.

I took 3 sequences of 45 seconds for a total of 3421 frames and used the best 600 frames. Processed in AutoStakertt and Registax and post processed in PI.

I really like the detail I was able to pull out of this image. It holds up very well at full resolution in the sun spots.

Hope you like and thanks for looking!

Dale

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