18.09.2025 Yet more solar imaging.

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  I dragged the whole lot outside again. It is blowing a gale but I am fairly well sheltered around the back of the house. Cloud has steadily increased from the first moments.

 Most of the software seemed to be working as expected. Yet again I could not remember how to push the results of one app onto the next. I have only one image to show for today's efforts so far. It has a soft limb but is quite detailed. 

 14.45 It has completely clouded over. I have come back in but left the rig in place. It is not supposed to rain. I have no internet out there. So can't look up quick guides to the next steps. Finding the files is the main problem. 

 I have lengthened the tripod legs to lift the telescope free of the roof's shadow. While I sit in the lee of the shed. With the screen lowered as far as it would go. So as not to catch the sunlight.

 I should find a much longer HDMI cable. To allow the rig to stand further away from the computer table. Imaging over a roof is not going to provide the best seeing conditions. Though I am still experimenting at this stage. As I sort out my procedures and practical details. The plan is to sit in the greenhouse. At the south facing, front of the house. With the telescope just outside. Not remotely possible today. As the gale is being funneled down that side of the house.

 16.15 I have given up. The sun has sunk below the trees from this viewpoint. It was slightly too cold at 65F/18C in the shade and the wind. The sun's disk is brighter on one side than the other. This brightness rotates with the blocking filter. Not a good sign. 

 The surface texture after processing in ImPPG is artificially granular. Nor could I see the screen well enough. To be sure of focus or tuning. The cloud was scudding across the sun's image for most of the time I was out there.  All very frustrating.

 I need to organize Internet via WiFi outside the house. As the months pass this site will become ever more shaded by the house roof. So I should be moving to the front of the house. Where I can be sheltered from the wind in the greenhouse. The monitor and keyboard can be protected from showers in there. With a permanent hood to increase the contrast on the screen. 

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