Using combinations of appropriate software

I used the PixInsight solar Toolbox process to process; sharpen, change local contrast and colourise a H-alpha solar image.

I then used Solar Gun to add to-scale images onto the image to give true scale to the structures on the Sun.

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Planet-augmented image of the H-alpha Sun

Jupiter and Earth can both be seen to-scale at the top left of the image. Compared with the Sun, Earth is very small.

In this image of the Earth has been placed at the centre of the sunspot to the left of the Jupiter image and it is quite hard to discern.

Expanded detail of the appropriate area of the Sun

This image demonstrates the huge size of the sunspots and other structures present on the Sun.

Using software combinations such as this can be quite useful, using the most useful features of each program.

Steve Wainwright