Solar Imaging: Techniques and Tools | 2025-05-05

Solar imaging is experiencing a great renaissance in terms of interest and processing software thanks to the imminent arrival of solar maximum in 2024-2025. The active time, full of sunspots and flares has made solar imaging more exciting than ever. In this presentation Andrea Girones hopes to de-mystify solar imaging and encourage others to try it. Solar imaging is fast and usually warm and does not affect your sleep (although creating a nice timelapse may keep you up at night). Andrea will talk about her equipment, imaging techniques and discuss about some of the great new solar processing software now available to us.

Andrea Girones is clearly obsessed with her astrophotography. A life-long astronomer and eclipse chaser (she used to take sky pictures with film back in the day), it took a while for Andrea to figure out these new-fangled automated scopes and digital cameras. After a long hiatus from the hobby raising her two children, it was Comet NEOWISE that brought her back to her beloved hobby. Thankfully by this time her daughter could help work her modern DSLR digital camera and together during the pandemic they took her first digital image of that famous Comet.
Since then Andrea has spent far too much time, effort (and disposable income) refining her art. Her astrophotography has won several awards, including the Paul Commission Observer of the Year award, the Rolf Meir Planetary imager of the year, of her local RASC chapter, a WITNS selection from Alyn Wallace, as well as the Williamina Fleming award from the Astronomical League. She was honoured to have been selected as the 2023 Imager of the Year at Starfest and is a judge of this year’s contest .
Her images have appeared on the front (and back covers) of the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and on the cover of the 2024 RASC calendar. She often give presentations to organizations on solar imaging, a particular fascination for her.
Andrea lives and images from Ottawa Ontario Canada.

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