Typically, I can get better shots of the sun using just my phone's camera pointed through the eyepiece, (with solar filter in place so my eyes don't burn out or my mirrors melt or something else as spectacularly tragic) but I could never tell if I captured the granulation of the Photosphere or if it was just electronic noise.
This is processed in Registax using the Celestron Neximage 5, which is a ginormous improvement over whatever the name of my previous imager is. I used fewer frames here than I would have otherwise liked and I couldn't tell if I was in focus or not (bahtinov masks don't work on the sun!) So it's less than ideal... but you can clearly see what I'm going to call convection cells. It was also imaged in white light and desaturated so it's not in a pleasing artificial yellow color you might see elsewhere.
As I understand it, no one really knows how to use Registax any better than I do and that makes me feel better.
BEINGS FROM ANOTHER WORLD
ReplyDeleteThank you! I really enjoy sharing these images with people who couldn't otherwise see it through a telescope of their own. I only wish I could have captured the sudtle little... I'm going to call them riles because that's what they look like to me- around the edges of the solar disk. I'd also like to try photographing the chromasphere but Hydrogen Alpha filters are expensive and I don't know if my current skills would make it worth while. :3