Very Active Sun

 

The seeing conditions weren't great a few weeks ago, but plenty of solar activity, including a very well defined sunspot.  

Photo Details

December 5, 2020

Lunt 60 mm Pressure Tuned Telescope

ZWO ASI178MM 

SharpCap - 8 Bit Mono

Image Stacking in AutoStakkert
Wavelet Filtering in Registax
Final Adjustments in Photoshop

Thanksgiving Moon

 

3x Barlow

Another clear sky and beautiful waxing gibbous Moon on Thanksgiving night made for good imaging.  A 3x Barlow lens was used for the bottom set of pictures which really brought out the details.

Photo Details

Orion 8" Astrograph on VX Mount

ZWO ASI178mm

Sharpcap

Image Stacking in AutoStakkert
Wavelet Filtering in Registax
Final Adjustments in Photoshop