Good and calm weather. Best time for trying things out on the sun.

This was the first time trying the QHY camera on the sun - with a Baader solar filter of course.

Today's
Conditions		 : partially cloudy sky , Temp 16°C, ~60% humidity, mediocre seeing, low wind

For almost all images

Instrument : Omegon Pro AP Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
Camera : QHY5III715C
Exposure : SER Video ~500 frames at 0.4ms/frame
Software : Firecapture, Astrostakkert 3, Astrosurface, Gimp

Full view of the white sun. The chip is too small to image the whole sun.
The camera has been set to black & white capture.
Date - Time : 20 May 2024 - 0942 UT
Get the full resolution image here : Download image file

Full size ROI (region of interest) with sunspots
Date - Time : 20 May 2024 - 0945 UT

Colour image through a wide pass H-Alpha filter.
I think it is too wide for to show any detailed features on the sun.
The camera has been set to black & white capture.
Date - Time : 20 May 2024 - 0955 UT

The same region as before but this time with a blue filter (instead of a CA (Calcium) filter, which I do not have.)
Image taken in colour mode. Then converted to black & white
Date - Time : 20 May 2024 - 1006 UT

Another full resolution frame, this time a colour image.
Date - Time : 20 May 2024 - 1015 UT

Equipment

Optics              : Omegon Pro AP Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
                    : Intes MK-67 Maksutov Type Reflector d=150mm f=1800mm (f=1/12)
Camera              : Omegon veTec 533 C Colour CMOS Camera with IMX533 square 9MP sensor 3,75µm pixels
                    : QHY 5III715C Colour CMOS IMX715 8,2MP sensor 1,45um pixels high speed
                    : NIKON D7000 DSLR unmodified (from 2011)
                    : The Imaging Source DMK21AU4.AS monochrome USB highspeed camera
                    : Panasonic LUMIX G110 MFT System (from 2021)
Filter              : IR/UV Cut, Astronomik H-Alpha, Astronomik LRGB set + filter drawer
add. optics         : ED 2x Barlow lens, eyepiece projection
                    : 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and 200mm NIKON lenses available
                    : 2.8/60mm Sigma, 12 .. 60mm Leica for MFT system
Mount               : VIXEN GP Highspeed Step Motors (Non Vixen Motors)
Controller          : EQStar Pro (since May 2023)
Guiding             : PHD2
Aquisition          : DELL Notebooks (Windows 10 & Windows 11), SharpCap, FireCapture and others
Image Processing    : DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Gimp and others

latest list update  : May 2024