Solar Imaging with Lunt 100M-Double Stacked 10-17-15

Here are a couple quick shots of our glorious star that I captured today. Seeing was below average. The sun has four visible active regions right now, with AR2434 in southeast quadrant being the most active. Prominence activity was visible, but light. Used my Lunt LS100THa scope with double stack module, on an Atlas EQ-G mount. Guiding was done using a Hinode Solar Guider. Capuring camera used was a ZWO ASI174MM. For the close up shot of AR2434, I used a Tel Vue 5x barlow. Used Firecapture software for data acquisition. Post-processing was done using AutoStakkert II, Registax 6, and Photoshop CS6. For the main disk capture, I used roughly 1000 frames out of 1800 collected. For the close up shot of AR2434, I used roughly 1500, out of 2400 frames collected.

Full Disk 6 Panel Mosaic
This is a large six panel higher resolution mosaic from the solar capture work that I did today. I have some slight gradients and discontinuity going across the image, that I had a tough time dealing with. Sometimes puzzles just don't go together nicely. This composite is lighter than the previous single shot that I put up earlier, as I boosted the camera gamma setting during capturing, so that I could bring out some of the prominences along the edge of the disk. Many Plages and Filaments can easily be seen on the surface. If you look closely along the edge of the disk, will also see the many little Spicules emanating from the edge.