Crazy Processing of a Solar Image (DanielZoliro)

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Crazy Processing of a Solar Image

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Crazy Processing of a Solar Image

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

I know that there are many out there that will hate this and think that it's sacrilege to our hobby. But you can see in my profile that I stick to traditional astrophotography most of the time. I was bored, and wanted to try something different. And besides that...this is meant to be art, and not scientific in any way, so don't letter it bother you too much. ;)

I've been doing some solar imaging over the last week because the atmospheric seeing has been great. This is an image of the sunspot in the Active Region 2833. I shot it with my Daystar Quark Chromosphere solar filter and the ASI1600mm Pro mono camera. The original image was shot in monochrome and like most solar images, false color was added. The red/orange you see in the photo is the typical false color added to solar images, and closely resembles the color you see when you look through an h-alpha solar filter with an eyepiece.

To get the crazy colored image, I used photoshop to place a monochrome version layer over the red colored layer and began erasing the mono layer little by little with the eraser tool, using mostly thin to medium sized brushes while following the contours of the natural lines. This left me with a half colored, half monochrome version of the image. I erased the rest of the monochrome "leftovers" with a larger brush set to very low opacity. Then I used Camera Raw to begin manipulating the hues, saturation, and luminance of the colors to get the crazy colored image you see. Then I pieced it together in a tiled format for this final version.

What do you think? Crazy? Probably.

But I had fun anyways.

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