[Adelastro1 (Wayne England)]

Here is an image from my very first shoot of the sun last Sunday in practice for the transit that I'm after feedback on please. Taken with Nikon D800E, Nikon 500mm AiS f4 (manual focus lens). RAW file processed in PS5. I tried a few shots with a TC-301 2x teleconverter (ie. at 1000mm) but they were a bit soft so will have to work on focus, mount stability and get a remote cable release. Also the images were taken late afternoon so seeing wasn't the best.

This is almost a 100% crop too with lots of detail (albeit it resized to 200kB), so the D800E is doing what I got it for! It produced a 100Mb Tiff file but cropped it's down to a far more manageable 3Mb!

f8, 1/1000sec, ISO 400 @ 500mm with Baader Astrofilm.

Any tips on processing? I'm getting a Baader Continuum filter this week to hopefully produce better results.

Thanks,
Wayne