AR11041 Jan 30th

[daveg]

Seeing gradually improving as the Sun rises more each day.

this is a 7 frame mosaic trying topaz Details for processing

PST-B90 f/20 (F=1800mm) DMK21 camera - Near Birr Ireland

David Gradwell

[Quark]

Beautiful work as usual Dave,

Topaz Detail seems most interesting, Dennis has used it to great effect on the Moon and it seems to work well for Solar images. I have tried it on the planets but for that particular application I have other software that does a lot better job, that said, it seems to work exceptionally well on terrestrial images.

[Dennis]

Nice work David, although it looks a little "unnatural" for my personal taste? I love the inclusion of our home planet, what a dramatic sense of scale!

Cheers

Dennis

[daveg]

Thanx Folks

Dennis do you think its over processed??

DG

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

Sorry, I should have been more specific.:doh:

The main “processing” feature that caught my attention was that in some regions of the solar disc, the image appeared too 3D compared to others that I had viewed recently on Ice In Space. I have seen this effect on (terrestrial) photos that I have taken when I have been too aggressive with Topaz.

However, as I have never taken an H alpha solar image, consider it an arm chair astronomer’s view!:whistle:

Cheers

Dennis

[daveg]

thanx Dennis (v important people give constructive critisism - its the best way to learn).

Will reprocess it less agressively, the sun is still too low here so detail is hard to come by - so I tend to over sharpen a bit.

Dave

[daveg]

Heres a lighter version

DG

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Dave

I like version 2 - not too tweaked and great colour!

Thanks for revisiting it!

[Paul Haese]

Second image is not bad Dave.

[Dennis]

Nice repro Dave – I also prefer the later yellow tone too. You’ve done very well to pluck this one out of the air – I assume that the Sun only gets up to around 11 or 12 degrees above the horizon at mid day in the deeper winter months!

Cheers

Dennis