From: Ray Byrne <ray@in4media.co.uk>

Date: May 31, 2010 8:27:16 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] memorial day star

Hi Alan,

Lovely detailed and crisp image and beautifully presented as usual. Can I ask, do you invert the surface image (I'm assuming that this is a composite) as the limb is in fact bright when it is darker in the EP. If you do it is very effective I think I'll have a play myself with my recent images. I'd also like to be able to get a smaller image scale so I can get the whole disc on the chip of my DMK, my scope is slower at f/5.6 than yours so I may have to see if I can get a focal reducer or try my digicam.

Cheers

Ray

On 30 May 2010, at 21:09, Alan Friedman wrote:

Hi all,

Great to have a three day weekend after many weeks of work and no play. Here is a picture of our neighborhood star captured earlier this afternoon:

http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/neighborhood_star.html

The Scorpion camera used with the 450mm native focal length of my A-P Stowaway frames the full solar disk nicely. Process in Astro IIDC and Adobe Photoshop CS3.

best wishes,

Alan