Usually when I take a photo of the sun through my Baader film and ED120 or ED80, I get something like picture number one.
Tonight, after all kinds of problems getting four different stacking programs to play the game, I ended up stacking eight of these frames and produced image number two.
Unfortunately there isn't enough memory on my laptop for these programs to process RAW or TIFF in any great number, if at all, so I had to convert to JPEG (crappy alternative) and go with that.
Still, I'm surprised and amazed at the result. Even though I lost a little of the outer limb of the sun, I can see the surface granulation that I have never seen before, as well as much clearer and sharper sunspots.
Nice going Barry. What program did you use in the end to stack?
I'm having lots of fun playing with processing options tonight. First chance since the big day. Some of the single shots are fun, but you do seem to have pulled plenty of detail in the stacked image.
I used DPP to convert them all to JPEG and resized them to 3500 on the long side. I then loaded them into Maxim DL essentials to align and stack, stretched the histogram and exported to Photoshop elements 6 for final tweaking and a tidying crop.
