Thanks all for your comments.
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Originally Posted by SkyViking
That's just awesome, and I like how you have blended the red prominences in with the disc, it looks very natural. Such excellent processing and a very detailed image, thanks for sharing.
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Rolf, in the past I was isolating the space and prominences with the magic tool colouring it and then inverting the image. This invariably left a dark or light line after all the colouring was applied. Not an overly natural look. This however is just colouring the whole image at once using colour balance but being mindful of only using the midtones and background tones only. It completely removes the line problem altogether. I had in the past also done an imaging run for the prominences and then one for the disk detail. Blending this also creates the dark line issue. So now I use settings which capture the prominences faintly and the disk detail in the single capture and then I enhance each lot of features via masking. This image took 3 hours to process from the start to finish. Not too long for those interested in getting better solar shots.
Dennis you are too kind, but that is my goal to continually perfect my imaging and photography. Wish I could do this for a living sometimes. There are some great books around for solar theory and understanding of the features you are imaging or observing. Solar physics is really interesting.
