Wednesday 22 June 2022

Solstice System Synergy - 21st June

I think I have found a rather nice bit of system synergy here. My CaK filter and the ZWO183mm capture really like a f15 beam coming into them. Using the ED80 stopped down to 40mm gives me that f15, and the resultant image has quite a lot of contrast, and also surprising amount of detail for 40mm aperture. Running the 183mm capture in 16 bit mode (12bit on the camera ADC) seems to give oodles of headroom in the highlights and it is really diffucult to clip the histogram. This has the result of the chromospheric network and plage really popping out, seems to have lots of potential for further exploring! CaK-FD-40mm-f15-zwo183mm-bw