A friend I meet for talking over astro stuff talked me into taking his Lunt 60mm Solar Scope for a couple of weeks. I was happy to oblige of course. I had no idea that imaging with this rig would be so easy and so much fun!
I took the ASI 120MM-S guide scope I have and chunked it into the scope. Found a suite of software on the ZWO site called ASISuite (go figure) and tried out the planetary capture and stacking apps. BOOM! I'm a new solar imager!
It is the scope that is the real secret here. The app is free, the camera is dirt cheap ($150) and I'm using one of my old mounts to track. All of it works on Karren's old MacBook Pro, so I'm Jammin'.
Anyway, enough talk, here's an image or two...
Are these cool or what? The second image is an inverted one that shows off the prominences somewhat. Both are false color.
