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Sun Spots (20221213) - a personal IP milestone

Sun Spots (20221213) - a personal IP milestone

Around noon, today I had surprisingly a short chance to capture the Sun again. I really loved yesterday's appearance of the active regions, namely the beautiful and fine detailed Sun spots. Besides, some obvious development or appearance of new Sun spots urged me to try it today, also.

Unfortunately thin and milky high clouds extended over the sky most of the time and in addition the seeing was even worse than yesterday' ... next to useless. I will rate "seeing quality = 1" today, see version C.

If you have seen the linkedseeing animationI prepared from the original data I used here, you my understand why I set the title to 'a personal IP milestone' : The image processing (IP) was really, really hard. I tried a lot of parameters and hopefully improved my wisdom. If I can reproduce this same image quality next time from such ugly seeing data, than today's hard work will surely be remembered as a personal IP milestone.

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Title: Seeing Animation (20221213)

Description: ... cropped from F=420mm focal length: Even worse seeing than yesterday.

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