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Sunspots - 2024.06.07 [OC] (live.staticflickr.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love procrastinating on processing my images! I got set up early at a dark site last month and decided to shoot the sun while it was still up. There were a shitload of sunspots, including AR3697 in the bottom right. This sunspot group was the one that gave us the wonderful aurora back in May (back when it was known as AR3664)

Places where I host my other images:

Flickr | Instagram

Equipment:

  • TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

  • Orion Sirius EQ-G

  • ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro

  • Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

  • ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm

  • Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm

  • Moonlite Autofocuser

  • Astrozap BAADER AstroSolar Density 5 filter

Acquisition:

  • Green filter - 5000 frames at gain 139 and 0.324ms exposure

Capture Software:

  • Captured using sharpcap

Processing:

  • Stacked the best 25% of frames in Autostakkert, 2X resample and autosharpened

  • Colorized using curves in Photoshop

  • More lightness/Hue Adjustments

  • Astrosurface wavelets to remove some grid artifacts from stacking

  • STF applied in pixinsight

  • Annotatation

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wonderful image, the detail is incredible. Procrastinating on postprocessing is my every day. I feel you!