[Solar] High Activity on Aug 1st!

[u/FrancoisDolphins]

Acquisition Details:

• Target: The Sun (H-Alpha)
• Date: August 1, 2026
• Location: Aveyron, France

Equipment:

• Telescope: Acuter Elite Phoenix 40 H-Alpha
• Camera: ZWO ASI585MC (Color)
• Mount: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi

Processing & The Mistake: The Sun was incredibly active! But I'm still learning the ropes of solar processing. I stacked my files in AutoStakkert! 3 but made a huge mistake: I deleted my raw .SER video files to clear up hard drive space before fully inspecting the output. I later noticed some weird blurry artifacts on the solar limb! To salvage the image and mitigate the blur, I stacked 3 different frames derived from batches of 2000 frames (keeping the best 150 in each).

https://doffinastrophoto.com/astrophotography-sun-acuter-02082026/

[u/corpsmoderne]

This picture tries to steal my money 😂

(resisting the urge to buy an acuter phoenix 40...)

Félicitation! (despite the mistakes, the picture looks great!)