From: albe albo <richter1956@yahoo.com>

Date: May 5, 2009 2:41:18 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] sundulations

Hi Alan,

I love "your" Sun (as like for your Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, etc).

Your works are always clean and precise.

In addition  you never forget the artistic touch.

You made me crazy with that "dead ringer" but now  i'm happy because I learnt a new English phrase!

Consider that at first glance i understood the word "ringer" like a ringing device (I.E: a door bell).

So the prominence was an "exact duplicate" of a barn owl?

Good, "I was saved by the ...bell" !(or was I puzzled by the bell)?

Cheers

PS: thx for your comments to my Moon image.

I'm happy you noticed the work on the tonal range. 

It was a new experiment in Photoshop since the dynamic range  from the terminator to the lighter zone would have been impossible to do with the same camera settings so it needed a long work for equalization adding a special level for that purpose.

In addition the micro-seeing spoiled all the recordings creating double (ghost) images  very noticeable around the contrasted features (like sharp mountains or craters) that i attemptet to clean image by image with a self-subtraction method.

Unfortunately i had to rescale the image to improve the overall quality because the original recording was pretty huge.

I have a 3000 pixels version that is still decent unless you zoom in.

More than 10-12 hours working for that image.

After 150 days starving the Moon i caught the first chance even if the seeing was not at top level.

Da: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

A: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Inviato: Martedì 5 maggio 2009, 4:07:17

Oggetto: [Astro_IIDC] sundulations

Here is a 14 panel animation made from a Sunday solar session. The
tools in AstroIIDC made this a manageable project... about 18,000
frames to evaluate to find a few sharp ones!

http://www.avertedi magination. com/img_pages/ sundulations. html

At some point, the prominence was a dead ringer for a barn owl.

http://www.avertedi magination. com/images/ 2.30.jpg

best wishes,
Alan