Saturday, May 11, 2024

Solar Activity 5-11-24 - First Light the ASI174MM

These are the first images with my ZWO ASI174MM. It was the perfect morning to do this especially coming off of the aurora's the night before. I am very happy with this camera, even the live view was so much better than the ASI178. RThere will be more in-depth information later. I just wanted to get some images. One thing I will mention is that I don't have a good view of the morning sun from my observatory so I set the scope and all on to the AM3 Mount which is fine. However, I could not find the APP to run the mount so I had to scramble and use the hand controller which fortunately worked fine. I later found out that ZWO changed the name of the mount APP.

The ring structures visible on some of the images are an artifact known as Newton's rings. They can be corrected with tilt adjuster which I have I just have to play around with it, otherwise these are my best solar images yet. 






Solar Activity 5-11-24 - First Light the ASI174MM
Date: 5-11-24
Camera: ZWO ASI174MM-Pro
Telescope: Orion ED80
Barlow: Daystar Quark 4.2x
Focal Length: 600mm (2520mm w/Quark)
F/7.5 (F/31.5 w Quark)
Focal Reducer: none
Mount: ZWO AM3
Filter Adaptor: None
Filter: Camera UV-IR, Ha-Quark
Focuser: None
Autoguiding: None
Exposure: 100 x 6.1340 ms (100 of 500)
Gain: 100
Offset 0
Temp: 15 C
Processing: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, IMPPG, Photoshop

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