Thanks all, appreciate the comments. In case anyone is wonder who I get the proms and the disk looking smooth that is because I shoot them all together. On the really bigger proms I use a layer mask technique to overlay and then blend that in to the image, but all the other stuff is shot together with the disk detail. The colouring is done with shadows in the colour balance. That way there is no lines, or abrupt change in appearance. It took me a while how to work this out but the basics of this is that gama remains the same and the disk must be just illuminated to 254 on an 8 bit camera.
Eric, yes it is a good reward for such a long wait through minimum. I think I started this sort of imaging in 2006 and there were times I wondered if the telescope would see such magnificient views as in the last cycle. The next thing I want to see is the massive active regions like in last cycle. however, that might not happen, but with 18 odd months left till maximum is due to peak who knows.
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Originally Posted by gbeal
Unbelievable Paul, excellent shot.
One thing I wondered. A white light shot as well, with the rollover style animation, one to the other, so us mere mortals know what we are missing by just having white light?
Gary
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Good idea Gary, I have been trying to decide whether I want a Herschel wedge or use the same filter medium that Dennis does to do this very sort of thing. I will try to make up my mind soon. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by LKD
Hi Paul,
Great image, how to you colour the image? Also what program do you use for the mosaic.
I have only been video imaging abourt 2 weeks and need to learn alot more.
luke
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Luke, to colour I use PS with the photo filter, then use the colour balance function, some saturation and some curves. The combination is a bit hap hazard but I always aim for an orange type of sun, even though it is supposed to be white.
For the mosaic I use PS and join each layer together via the autoblend layers function under the edit tab. There are several programs that do this and I think the one that Peter Ward uses does it best. I cannot recall the name of it at present.