The Sun on lunch break

And a much better process of the close up, only used best 500 frames to stack.

YUK!

A little Sun on my lunch break

The sun popped out during lunch and I captured a few shots. 3 frames combined, 25000 frames each with Rocal Reducer, digital camera and 20mm EP. The brightness plays havoc on the white balance of the camera, it kept switching back and forth. Colorized in Gimp.

A little Saturn in an unexpected clear bit of sky

Didn't get to use the "new" method but still was able to capture a little Saturn, 10mm plossl with barlow threaded to EP.

Mars Afocal 4.19.12

I tried a new technique for Afocal, pretty unorthodox. I found a usb video capture cable on the net for 17 bucks and plugged that into the digital camera. This allows me to use the manual mode on the camera and adjust the exopsure, etc... and see the live results in Sharpcap and to capture the video at 720x480 AVI, instead of the 640x480 mpeg in the camera. Although I was hoping for better, it was a good test. Seeing was not very good, and I still need to experiment with the settings more. It's certainly better than I have been able to get with the digital camera so far.
Sony Cybershot 7 MP
10mm with barlow threaded to bottom of EP
10" SCT
USB capture cable to Sharpcap
Tried a couple of different zoom levels.

Sunspots with a Webcam

Break in the clouds for just a moment, so rushed out and hooked up the webcam for the 1st time and got a couple of quick shots. Focus is a bit off, it's hard to focus on the sun!

1st Solar Image

Da Sun, there were a bunch of dust spots I tried to clean up in Gimp.
 Captured a couple of sunspots, and faculae.
Sunspots 1459 and 1458 4/15/2012

Mars and saturn 4/6/12

7MP digital camera connected to eyepiece, 3 minute videos stacked in Registax