Last night was a clear, beautiful night the likes of which I haven't seen in a long time. It was 9:00pm and I didn't have to wake up too early the next morning. I set up my TV-85 imaging equipment and took vids at three different f/ratios, plus one at f/6 to capture the planet disk and moons. The captures didn't take long and within a half hour I had them in my computer. It also didn't take long for me to realize I had botched up a setting when capturing and my vids were no good.

This afternoon the sky looked clear around the sun. I checked the Space Weather web page and sure enough, there were sun spots waiting to be imaged. I set up my DSLR on the photo tripod, found the sun, and began snapping away. With not much effort I was able to turn out this decent image of the sun.


El Sol - November 14, 2022

LOCATION:
Miami, Florida 25.61N 80.42W
Date - 11/14/2022
Time - 1:45pm EST
Sky Conditions - Clear, clouds rolled in

EQUIPMENT:
Telescope/Lens - Canon EFS 55-250mm @ 250mm
Imaging Camera - Canon T3i
Mount - Photo tripod
Filters - Baader Neodymium, Baader solar film
Accessories - Intervalometer for triggering

ACQUISITION:
F/10
ISO 100
1/500 shutter speed
Quality: Canon S1 jpg (4.5M 2592x1728)
1 set of 10 frames - keepers
1 set of 50 frames - clouds rolled in

PROCESSING:
PIPP - Frame alignment
AS!2 - Stack best two frames
RegiStax 6 - Wavelets to sharpen, Gamma to brighten
GIMP - Darken background, add a little bit of blue hue to solar disk
Photo Studio - Upsize image, Save .tif image as .jpg image