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My first solar image, Kelvin Hennessy

My first solar image

My first solar image, Kelvin Hennessy

My first solar image

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This is my first attempt at solar photography.

The ISS was scheduled to pass in front of the sun from our Cudgen farm so I took this as an opportunity to tick "Solar Imaging" off my bucket list and ordered some Baader Solar Safety film and stuck it into a 3D printed aperture mask I had previously made for this telescope.

I used my Saxon 952mm refractor, Televue Powermate 2x and ASI183MC Pro on my EQ6-R mount.

The ISS measures 90x90 pixels at this image scale.

Captured as full sensor 5496x3672 20fps 8 bit video using SharpCap Pro (using an HP x360 i7 16GB RAM 500GB SSD which can capture twice the FPS as my 3 year old i5 Microsoft Surfacebook).

Colourised to yellow-orange (from its original blue-grey) in Photoshop

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My first solar image, Kelvin Hennessy