Reprocessed Sun
I have a little bit of time before we need to head to the train station so I thought I would try a few different processing techniques on yesterday's solar images. The sunspot is still obvious in this image as well as a few other areas of interest. The other areas may be sunspots forming... time will tell. These are images capturing white light using a glass solar filter mounted on the front objective lens of my telescope. I captured the image using my Sony a6000 camera and using a 2.5x GSO barlow. This particular image, below, is a single frame. Yesterday's image was the result of stacking 10 images. I'm actually a bit surprised by the amount of detail I'm seeing here in this image. This was captured using my smaller Skywatcher ED 72mm refractor telescope. Also, the glass filter isn't as good as my usual solar wedge diagonal especially when it is mounted on my larger Explore Scientific ED 102mm APO refractor. Yesterday's imaging was simply to