I recorded a Storm on the Sun with my Telescope (Lunt 50mm)

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  • Опубликовано: 14 янв 2025

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  • @luisrivera-lopez3648
    @luisrivera-lopez3648 22 дня назад +1

    Yesterday, my wife and I ordered a Lunt 50mm. My mother in Law gave me to me as a gift. I am so excited learn to use it. Thank you very much for your excellent presentation and for your help. Take care Kyle.

  • @KevinRudd-w8s
    @KevinRudd-w8s Год назад +1

    That time lapse video was pretty awesome Kyle. I have had a Lunt LS50 for a number of years and I must say I have been very happy with it.

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  Год назад

      Thanks and glad to hear it! Looking forward to the solar maximum!

  • @CjsAstrophotography
    @CjsAstrophotography Год назад +2

    Great result! The seeing conditions were unbelievably good

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  Год назад

      Yeah the seeing was great! Did have to drop a frame occasionally for clouds, but still came together fairly well.

  • @ericplatt6884
    @ericplatt6884 8 месяцев назад +1

    The time-lapse of the solar surface, and ejection action around the rim was super cool. The rotation of the sun too.

  • @hael8680
    @hael8680 9 месяцев назад +2

    Great results and video! I'd love to see a tutorial on the stretch you do in imppg!

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  9 месяцев назад +1

      I might throw together a Solar/Ha Timelapse tutorial at some point, there have been a few requests for that. Want to find some more good solar activity to image tho.

  • @xYUGURTx
    @xYUGURTx 8 месяцев назад +2

    If you could do a tutorial on how you got those images, that would be great.
    Awesome time lapse! I just bought a lunt 50 today. I can't wait till it gets here! I'm excited to see how awesome the images are that you were able to get with it. I've never done solar photography but I hope one day I can get some as good as yours!

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  8 месяцев назад +1

      I'll think about it. Not sure when my next solar session will be. I'd likely generate it as part of that. In the meantime though, let me know if you have any questions or need any help when you start using it. May be able to help you through the learning curve.

  • @Chris-of6xm
    @Chris-of6xm 8 месяцев назад +2

    Man I'm so glad I came across this video. 10,000 views? Is figure should have 10 million views. So amazing the people we read about in history books and we're talking about in school, kings, queens, royalty, conquers, explorers, dictators, powerful people to poor people alike up until now never had the ability to see the things we see in what detail we see them in with little to no effort. Things are at our fingertips and we take them for granted so much I think about what the great explorers would have done to have the use of a smartphone with navigation in it. What an amazing video an image you were able to capture. Thanks for your knowledge of this equipment your ability to use it and share it with us. We're really lucky

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  8 месяцев назад

      Yeah, there's so much available to us now. The science is all so accessible that you can just get some off-the-shelf/consumer equipment and see things that people never would've even thought of. It's super amazing

  • @jamesw5713
    @jamesw5713 Год назад +1

    That is super impressive! Never thought about doing solar observing before.

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher 10 месяцев назад

      White filters are good for sunspots and high magnification shows some surface granulation, but it gets boring pretty fast. Hydrogen Alpha Solar Scopes is the way to go. Problem is even the 40mm is expensive and the 50mm will give you a better closeup than 40mm. Friend has a Coronado PST 40 and he says 50x is about as high as he can go and get a sharp focus. Another guy has a Lunt 40 and takes it to 70x and says it is sharp. I'm getting a 50mm B600 for video, the B400 blocking filter is fine for visual though.

  • @chrisruthford4492
    @chrisruthford4492 11 месяцев назад +6

    From a fellow north Texan, love your channel. A solar scope is definitely on my list.

    • @RobotSnake
      @RobotSnake 9 месяцев назад

      Richardson here!

  • @HOLLYHOUSE11
    @HOLLYHOUSE11 8 месяцев назад +1

    The content is great but I subbed for your pure enthusiasm!

  • @stefanschneider3681
    @stefanschneider3681 10 месяцев назад

    Great stuff! I ordered my first solar filter a few days ago and can’t wait for it to arrive, after this video even more so 🤩

  • @Garyescargo
    @Garyescargo 10 месяцев назад +2

    Great shtuff brotha, those were indeed some great shots. Time lapse was awesome!

  • @coalthedergsune
    @coalthedergsune 10 месяцев назад +1

    crazy how that little thing managed to even show convection cells.

  • @mikereilly2745
    @mikereilly2745 2 месяца назад

    You got all that with a 50mm ! ? I had a Coronado 70mm Ha cost 3k+ in 2004. Your results are slightly better. Excellent show my friend.

  • @KlaudiusL
    @KlaudiusL 10 месяцев назад +4

    Nice gear. This channel is so underrated. Keep it up bro 💪

  • @MountainFisher
    @MountainFisher 10 месяцев назад +1

    I just bought a Lunt 50mm B600, like the last one Agena Astro had. Supposed to arrive tomorrow, Tuesday Mar 5. I'm putting it on my iOptron AZ Pro with a 102mm Maksutov with a White filter. Yeah it holds two scopes. Live in the desert of Southern New Mexico and I hope it won't be cloudy, but report is calling for partly cloudy and total on Wed.

  • @legacysearches4481
    @legacysearches4481 4 месяца назад

    Awesome! I am just learning to do solar. I use an Explore Scientific ar102 with daystar quark and 174mm cool. I can’t wait to get this good.

  • @guimarotta
    @guimarotta 10 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing. Noob question tho, why not in colors?

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад +1

      Monochrome cameras are going to perform better in narrowband situations like this (where I am filtering out all but one wavelength). This is because you can make use of every subpixel instead of having the RGGB Bayer Filter over top. A color camera in this scenario would only capture 1/4th of the light.
      If your instead asking why I kept it black and white instead of colorizing it, these colors feel more authentic to me since I captured it in Mono. Also didn't want to mess up recolorization since I haven't done that before lol

  • @farleytaylor5493
    @farleytaylor5493 9 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastico.

  • @tonykennedy9811
    @tonykennedy9811 10 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic ❤

  • @ShadowriverUB
    @ShadowriverUB 9 месяцев назад +1

    In HAlpha you can see solar flares too, they apper as bright spots flashes. when i was following solar activity i used to use nso halpha network as it updated faster then SDO data, as they are on land. You can look goes xray flux graph to see if flare is occuring, they cause xray bursts and its actully used to measure and classify flare power, they very slow events in real time lasting minutes and if active region gets flarey it fire those in sequance, and sometimes active region becomes sparkly with some small flares that are less poweful then baseline xray radiation of sun to be noticable

  • @sabru72
    @sabru72 10 месяцев назад

    Goosebumps

  • @darkmoonastrophotography
    @darkmoonastrophotography Год назад +8

    Awesome Kyle! Would be great if you could do a video detailing how you dialled it in, focus, fine tuning/pressure tuning etc. There is nothing out there, that I could find anyways, and I could definitely use some help. 😃

  • @jacobrichards8359
    @jacobrichards8359 10 месяцев назад +1

    Seeing this makes me really want to pull the trigger and get a similar rig!

  • @King_Kristof
    @King_Kristof 10 месяцев назад +1

    Oh cool man!

  • @Astrofrank
    @Astrofrank Год назад +1

    The THa50/B600PT seems to be an interesting combination and is not _too_ expensive. With an ASI178MM, there should be sufficient true field of view even for the highest prominences while imaging the entires solar disk.

  • @dustinballinger5661
    @dustinballinger5661 9 месяцев назад +1

    I have the Lunt60MT and love it. For the time lapse did you do a series of short videos over the 5 hours or one continuous video. I did a trial run for the eclipse last weekend and did 30s video every minute with a 174MM and wound up with 1.5 TBs of data. It was cloudy and I was more just testing out but I really love the Timelapse you did and just looking for some insight before the eclipse. PS just subscribed.

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  9 месяцев назад

      It was a series of videos. I don't remember what I had the duty cycle at, but 15 - 30 seconds every minute is probably what I used. My data was ~450 GB in total.
      I did do the partial solar eclipse last year in October and those settings seemed alright. I'd probably want to cut that down as we reach totality, just to capture that shift more.
      Whatever you decide to go with, automation is going to be our best friend for the totality. Don't want to miss the moment for a good picture!

  • @ThePred2009
    @ThePred2009 7 месяцев назад

    awesome timelapse!!!

  • @ACEOFSPACE2000
    @ACEOFSPACE2000 2 месяца назад +1

    I see your using an alt az mount how did you deal with field rotation in your processing.

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  2 месяца назад

      @ACEOFSPACE2000 i used Davinci Resolve to stabilize-out the field rotation.

  • @markplacek6657
    @markplacek6657 6 месяцев назад +1

    I have a Lunt 50mm I love it

  • @baylen_domenighini
    @baylen_domenighini 9 месяцев назад +1

    The only time I've ever seen someone open a box with an axe 😂

  • @jupiterbjy
    @jupiterbjy 10 месяцев назад +2

    I never knew solar telescopes were able to do such pressure trick, god that gotta be pricy

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад +1

      it do be pricey...

    • @hunter133official
      @hunter133official 9 месяцев назад

      I think it's $949 for just the scope. And it's 50mm too, so it's basically camera lens aperture!

  • @MrMa1981
    @MrMa1981 8 месяцев назад

    Newton rings without barlow lens? Maybe it's the ASI 120 MONO. An obsolete camera. 4.0e read noise.
    Absolutely great resuts in timelapse anyway.

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  8 месяцев назад

      Thanks! and yeah, I considered putting more down for a new Mono camera, but I don't have much else I'd use one for. But I still want to stick with mono for solar for the light benefits as you know.

  • @joethebassplayer
    @joethebassplayer 10 месяцев назад +1

    Will you be going to see observe the eclipse in April? I went to Maryville, TN to view the 2017 eclipse and plan to go to Indianapolis this year...

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад

      You bet! Fingers crossed for good weather!

  • @scotiaastro
    @scotiaastro Год назад +1

    Awesome video, Kyle! Thanks for sharing your results and I've been looking for a wee dedicated solar scope to go along with my DayStar Quark...still weighing up the Lunt vs. Coronado conumdrum! Lol! Best wishes from Scotland...and please send us some of your clear skies...we need them badly! ;)

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  Год назад

      Ah, the Lunt vs Coronado dilemma lol. Best of luck on your decision! And we'll send some sun across the pond in just a bit 🫡

  • @MountainFisher
    @MountainFisher 9 месяцев назад +1

    Oh I forgot to add in my other comment that the 40mm has 1256 mm2 and the 50mm has 1963 mm2 or

  • @alexbuilds706
    @alexbuilds706 10 месяцев назад +1

    Pretty amazing considering the Earth fits in one of those sunspots basically lol

  • @trey4857
    @trey4857 Год назад

    I just recently got my first scope, an 8” sct w/equatorial mount, my Astro camera hasn’t even arrived yet because it’s back ordered and I’ve already got the bug, I’m hooked, and now I HAVE to get a solar scope after watching this, gonna have to make some more money…

  • @fernandorivera2395
    @fernandorivera2395 9 месяцев назад

    Are you going to double stack the Lunt 50mm 🤔

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  9 месяцев назад

      Not planning on it at the moment. I'm happy with the results of the single, and the single alone was expensive enough XD

  • @garbageman9145
    @garbageman9145 10 месяцев назад +1

    question the lunt 50 you have you are able to capture the entire sun? I know the camera matters a lot Ihave a ZWO ASI174MM

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад

      Yes I am with my zwo asi120mm. You'll have to see how the sensor size compares. I do think the 120 series had the smallest sensors though so yours should work?

    • @garbageman9145
      @garbageman9145 10 месяцев назад

      @@kylemccaslingreat, I just bought a used 50 cant wait, any accessories or things you would recommend

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад +2

      @@garbageman9145 Assuming that the scope already has a dovetail and that you already have a mount in addition to the camera you mentioned, you shouldn't need anything else.
      When you get the scope, I would probably reset the pressure tuner, just screwing it all the way off then back on again (if my understanding is correct, may want to check Lunt's literature). Doing so re-centers your tuning range.
      Actually using the scope, First find a good focus, then dial in the tuner using the filaments on the surface.
      As far as locating and tracking goes, if you don't have a solar finder, just use the shadow of your scope to find the sun. Also, Solar System align with the sun has worked well for me thus far, but it does need to be enabled in the utilities menu before it shows up as an option.
      Good luck!

  • @fernandorivera2395
    @fernandorivera2395 9 месяцев назад

    Did you get to see totality or were you clouded or rained out??

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  9 месяцев назад

      I saw it and imaged it! Ended up driving north east for a higher probability of clear skies. Video coming on that soon

  • @conorwoods2649
    @conorwoods2649 10 месяцев назад +1

    this isn't double stacked?

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад +1

      It is not! Just some good seeing single stacked.

    • @conorwoods2649
      @conorwoods2649 10 месяцев назад

      @@kylemccaslin I was debating on getting the 50mm cause I’ve heard bad things but this makes me wanna get it

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад +1

      @@conorwoods2649I haven't seen anything significant thus far, but I do have two things to mention.
      1.) The dovetail mounting holes are oddly spaced which might be a play by the mfg to promote their own dovetails (?).
      2.) There is some regional brightness variation depending in part on the tuning. That's what causes the mild changes in brightness in the video. There's also some mild Einstein's rings, but they didn't seem to show up much, especially in the stacked images.
      I hear the "2.)" points though are generally common among the smaller models and it's kind of a unit-to-unit thing.

    • @conorwoods2649
      @conorwoods2649 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@kylemccaslin thank you I appreciate this 👍🏼

  • @gee6607
    @gee6607 8 месяцев назад

    When you say time lapse does that mean one long 5 hr video

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  8 месяцев назад

      It's a little more complicated than that, but essentially yes

  • @aboldy
    @aboldy 10 месяцев назад

    wow, I sold my telescope recently (Didn't have a choice really) but what is the sun rotation period? I would have extected to see some rotation during your 5hr exosure, Love your vids BTW

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад

      The period is about a month. There is a little bit of it captured there, which was neat to see.

  • @abacus749
    @abacus749 Год назад

    Moon next?

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  Год назад +1

      Odd Solar Transit, Stellar Spectra, and Motion in Astronomy next!

  • @OnceShy_TwiceBitten
    @OnceShy_TwiceBitten 10 месяцев назад

    Is it just the camera in black and white? any color cams or pics? or is that the filter making it black and white?

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад

      Camera is mono (B/W). Since it's a Hydrogen Alpha Filter, the actual image that it produces is a deep red. I do not have any pics of that atm. Using a Mono camera is better in cases like this with single wavelength light due to some quantum efficiency reasons

  • @JeramyDersam
    @JeramyDersam 10 месяцев назад

    I'm kind of a newbie. I'm seeing that you used a monochrome camera?? And it's also been discontinued. Do you have any other recommendations on monochrome cameras? I've heard that monochrome actually does better for the Sun than color. What is your suggestion? And thank you so much for these informative videos. Absolutely amazing!!

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад +1

      Hey! I did indeed use a monochrome. For these single-wavelength observations, Mono is the way to go since you don't have an unnecessary Bayer filter reducing your total light. And more light let's you cut your shutter and increase your FPS which is key in Lucky Imaging.
      I don't have experience with other Mono cameras as I normally shoot color, but can attest to the quality of ZWO's cameras. If that's too expensive, SVBony has some cheap options, but I can't say how well they work since I don't have one.

    • @JeramyDersam
      @JeramyDersam 10 месяцев назад

      @@kylemccaslin I'm just looking for a camera that will fit this telescope and not have focusing issues. It looks like yours did really good.

  • @spliter200
    @spliter200 10 месяцев назад

    How many gigabytes was the 5 hour Timelapse?

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад +1

      The raw footage was 400 - 450 gb. Don't remember the exact number off the top of my head.

    • @spliter200
      @spliter200 10 месяцев назад

      @@kylemccaslin thanks bro

  • @Katzenrads
    @Katzenrads 10 месяцев назад

    How does the 50mm compare to the 40mm? Did it include the blocking filter and focuser or did you have to purchase them separately on top of the $957 price tag?

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад +1

      The biggest differences are the Aperture (go figure) and the tuning method (Pressure vs Tilt). The bigger aperture should help resolve a bit more, you can probably find some comparisons online. The Pressure vs Tilt is a bit harder to explain and I'm not quite sure I understand the pros and cons myself. I assume Lunt has some material to cover that. All I really know is that my scope is working fine. There are some quirks though*
      As for the price, that $957 includes the basic Blocking Filter (B400) and Helical Focuser, but does not include Tax. People were recommending the B600 Blocking Filter for imaging the full disk, so I opted for that upgrade/swap which increased the price.

    • @Katzenrads
      @Katzenrads 10 месяцев назад

      @@kylemccaslin Okay. Yea I heard about the B600 recommendation from others as well.

  • @valoriel4464
    @valoriel4464 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thx for the delightful vid. ✌🏻

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @PruneHub
      @PruneHub 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@kylemccaslin I thought I saw the rotation but I wasn't sure until you mentioned it. That was awesome! Subscribed.

  • @EpicBunty
    @EpicBunty 10 месяцев назад

    hey man u know that u can record UFO's if you shoot 4k 120fps and infrared.
    4K to zoom in
    120 fps to slow it down (they are really fast)
    infrared to be able to see them. you can point this camera to any sky any time and get something in a few days hopefully.

  • @bongosock
    @bongosock 10 месяцев назад

    How cool?

  • @edkonstantellis9094
    @edkonstantellis9094 8 месяцев назад

    Open boxing with an axe?
    Just aksin...

  • @jayerjavec
    @jayerjavec 10 месяцев назад

    Storm? On the Sun? First time I've heard about it. You mean solar filaments? Storm is such a non-scientific and more of a clickbait title. Was that your intention?

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  10 месяцев назад +10

      "Rain" on the sun is a term that NASA uses sporadically. Solar Storm is also an official term, though it is less specific than solar flare. Storm is an accurate, albeit simple, term to describe the activity.

    • @PruneHub
      @PruneHub 10 месяцев назад +1

      What is YOUR intention with an "abstract, instrumental hip-hop mix"? Definitely not for clickbait.

  • @pureblood1978x
    @pureblood1978x 10 месяцев назад

    Who opens packages with an axe? 😂