After a meh night of imaging, mainly due to the smoke from the Alberta wildfires killing the skies here, I decided to get the solar filter out and see what the sun looked like. I haven’t done this in ages, and some of my gear has changed along the way.
It took a while to actually figure out what the heck I was doing. Even focusing was hard. The focus position moves a lot when going from a cold tube at night to one that is baking in the sun. It took all morning to get on top of that.
The final result was worth it though. After capturing a whole bunch of video files and processing then through AstroStakkert with some deconvolution in PixInsight I ended up with this:
I will most certainly be doing this again soon!