Calm Fireball - Sun in H-a, 28/07/2013

[Luke]

This has taken me a while to process. I wanted to try to make the sun look firey but calm it down a bit. I thought an orangey look would help that?

I did a test run on a patch of it, then got a look a liked in a few minutes. So I went back to the main image, thinking this won't take long, and had trouble getting it to look like the test run

Thanks for looking.

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28/07/2013

SolarMax 60 SS / Grasshopper 3 (ICX687)

[Montana]

Wow!!! that's a beauty, I love the colour the proms are amazing was this a one shot of surface and proms?

Alexandra

[JamesF]

The proms are indeed fantastic. Lovely image

James

[DrRobin]

Very nice Luke. Time well spent on the computer.

Robin

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Amazing photo. Really do love these types of photos.

Woud love to try them myself if i could afford the gear.

[Luke]

Thanks, folks

Alexandra, it was a separate capture for the proms. At the mo I am normally trying to get the surface and proms in one shot with a higher gamma setting, though if there are some good proms about, I chicken out and do a separate prom shot as well. I'll have to hurry up and process some of the single shots to check they are okay!

I'm a bit gutted that tonight I missed a superb airplane transit by a few seconds in white light. It flew right over the disc at a lovely angle while I had the 2.5x barlow on

What a funny game this is, I used to NOT want airplanes flying over when DSO imaging.