The Sun white light 5 July 2012 - second solar image

[x6gas]

Hi all,

This is my second attempt at imaging the sun and the first using a high frame rate camera instead of a DSLR.

Best 50% of 1000 frames stacked in Registax 6. I tried a quick process in Registax and in AstroArt but to be honest couldn't seem to improve anything (I had absolutely no idea what to do, mind!)

TS90 Apo with homebrew Baader solarfilm filter

CG-5

IMG0H cam

Sun_120705.tif

[Bizibilder]

You have a good image there - I suspect that you could extract a bit more detail with experience, so keep on going and things will start to fall into place as you progress.

[Steve Ward]

Good start there ,

Would suggest setting the limit to 90-95 % , that way you'll use only the very best frames to stack and play with , crud in = crud out generally...........

[The Sailor]

Nice one.

Jim

[x6gas]

Thanks all - was cloud dodging but was suprised to get anything given the weather lately...

Ran through Registax with the best 5% of frames...

And with a fiddle with wavelets (not that I can see much difference!) Will have to look up some solar image processing tutorials!

[x6gas]

Had a bit more of a play with this; this time stacked in AS!2, wavelet tweak in Registax 6...

Is it getting any better?

Also attaching a TIFF of the result of the stack with no processing in case someone else wants to have a go at processing...

Sun_120705_g4_q10.tif

[x6gas]

OK so last go with this particular capture.

Thought I'd follow Bizibilders excellent tutorial http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/153712-simple-white-light-solar-imaging/#entry1550177

Couldn't get anything out of wavelets but did try the Photoshop bit (well as close as I could in PhotoPlus 10).

Sun_120705_g4_q10.tif

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I like the penultimate image best. Great detail and best contrast and colour.

[x6gas]

Thanks Michael, I think I do too!

[Ant]

There is quite a bit of detail in there. Personally I've had no luck at all with Registax6. Registax5 gives me some very odd effects - straight lines like a fold in the image.

I've downloaded AVIStack - which is not quite as nice on the GUI front, does seem to work very well.

Anyway back to you image, I downloaded a copy, ran it through R5 for the wavelets and to resize 200%. Then into PS for some colour.

Very Nice. You should be really proud of that!!!

Ant