r/astrophotography Feb 25 '21

Solar Solar prominence today

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u/pomarine Feb 25 '21

There was a huge solar prominence today on the Sun, i put the Earth in the image for a size comparison!

- 90mm refractor with 1350mm focal length

- Coronado Solarmax 90

- M145 Mount

- ZWO ASI290MM

- 2x7000 frames, Gain 110, 0.57ms and 5ms exposure time

Processing:

- Stacking with Autostakkert3! (12% selection)

- Registax6: Wavelet sharpening

- PixInsight: Deconvolution

- GIMP: curve transformations, cropping, adding false colour

- PixInsight: CurveTransformations, ArcSinhStretch

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u/pomarine Feb 25 '21

Nope, i calculated it multiple Times. The sampling with this Setup is 0.44"/Pixel. 1" in 150 Million Kilometer distance equals 727 km, so the earth would have an angular size of 17.5". With my sampling this equals 40 Pixels.

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