The Sun in White and H-alpha light

Sun in White Light:

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Using an Altair 60mm Doublet refractor fitted with an Altair Herschel Wedge to safely filter out 99.99% of the sun's light, a 5,000 frame SER was taken with a Player One Apollo-M-Mini camera fitted with a x2 Barlow lens using Astro DMx Capture. 15% of the frames were then stacked in Autostakkert!4, with the resultant TIFF file wavelet processed in Registax, with false colour applied in Pixinsight's Solar Toolbox, and final processing done in Adobe Photoshop 2025.

Sun in Ha:

A Coronado PST was used to take a 5,000 frame SER with a Player One Apollo-M-Mini camera fitted with a x2 Barlow lens using Astro DMx Capture. 15% of the frames were then stacked in Autostakkert!4, with the resultant TIFF file wavelet processed in Registax, with false colour and prominence boosting applied in Pixinsight's Solar Toolbox, with final processing done in Adobe Photoshop 2025.

Chris Bowden