6.5 days old moon - version 2
This is the edited version from the previous 6.5 days old moon mosaic. I've pushed up the levels, curves and brightness to reveal more features, especially towards the terminator.
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8.42 days old Moon - another mosaic
This is another moon mosaic. A total of 30 individual video files, stacked with Autostakkert, and merge in Photoshop. Unfortunately a couple of frames were way off focus. I should have check it much more closely during each shot. The moon's tone was also a bit tricky. I need to readjust slightly for almost half the video files, in order to avoid saturation. That however, created another headache in Photoshop, where I need to readjust the brightness again and again.
6.5 days old Moon mosaic
Finally, after almost a day of stacking and combining in photoshop, this is it. My latest Moon mosaic, from 21 individual video files. I am very happy with the results, not perfect, but by far the most satisfying so far. Images were taken using the following equipment Skywatcher 120ED, f/15 (2x barlow) QHY IMG132E camera. EQ6 mount. Click HERE for the 'almost' full size. I'm not sure why when I uploaded to blogspot, the size were reduced when we click on the image above.
The many faces of AR1520
The many faces of AR 1520. Since the 6th of July, I've been blessed with good weather (somewhat), and managed to get a series of photo shots on the sunspot. Well, I missed the 11th, due to cloudy sky all day long. So, here there are in starting from the 6th until today. Note: prior to 8th July, spaceweather labelled this group as AR1529. Or did I mistaken it with the smaller spot leading the group?
AR1519 - super gigantic sunspot in the making?
Ok, this one is huge! It nearly knocks my socks off when I took this video yesterday morning. The news at Spaceweather.com took me quiet a surprise, because the day before, it didn't appear anything special. Probably it was still on the other side of the limb. Fortunately, I recorded the emergence of AR1519 on the 6th of July, even though it was still unnamed at SDO/HDI website. It was interesting when +Peter Lake pointed out on my post in G+, that this spot could be the similar like the one in 1859 super flare. Well, let's see if it holds its greatness for the next few days.
AR1515 evolution
Sunspot AR1515 is evolving nicely. This is a quick compilation of 4 days (missed a few in between). Hope I can get a complete set until the group disappear.