8 pane Solar mosaic.jpg

Here is my image of the Sun I took on the 26th February. The Sun has had a lot of activity recently after being at a prolonged minimum since early last year.

I captured this image using my homemade 6" Solarscope which at its heart has a Lunt PS60 etalon and my Altair Hypercam IMX174M.

It is a composite of 8 images stitched together and processed in Photoshop.

I took 8 x 2000 frame video runs running at 60fps to create each of the 8 images.

I inverted the surface to add more detail and to make the Sun's surface look 3D