The Face of Our Star - January 27, 2017 ft AR2629 & AR2628 (Brent Newton)

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The Face of Our Star - January 27, 2017 ft AR2629 & AR2628

I have visually observed and taken pictures of the sun before - but this is the first time I noticed that I could see texture. I do not know if this texture is the result of the white light filter or the sun's surface, but I hope it is the latter. I had never tried sharpening my solar photos before, though it would help bring out the sunspots, the idea had simply never occurred to me (probably because we are in a minimum).

- I took 100 photos each through a white light filter, then another 100 using a yellow filter placed on the end of the T-adapter (also through the White Light of course).

- I stacked each separately in Registax (using the top 70 frames each) and sharpened each twice, once for interior detail, and one less aggressive set of wavelets to avoid oversharpening the edge.

- I then lifted the soft edges in Photoshop and placed them over the images with sharpened interior detail.

After that, the color version received some color balance corrections, really just to my taste since the light was artificially colored in the first place, and the pure white image was sharpened with increased contrast. Then white version was then used as a Luminosity Layer over the yellow version to get the best of detail and color

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