Here's an image of Sunspot #1084 that a friend of mine at work created. It is his first attempt at this type of astrophotography and I thought it was cool enough to share. He gave me permission to post this on SMC(His name is Dennis Kulpa) His remarks are below:
I took this picture on Monday; it’s an image of sunspot 1084 before it rolls around to the back side of the sun. The video consisted of 1000 frames, processed in a software package called AviStack, took about 3 hours with over 2 hours of that just for the alignment process of the frames (press a button and then just walk away from the computer, watch a movie, read a book, etc). Then I took the final image into Photoshop to sharpen it up a bit and add the color (my camera is monochrome). I don’t think it’s bad for my first attempt, considering some of the images I’ve seen posted on the web. I really need to learn the processing steps in more detail, and I’m gonna have to pick up a better version of Photoshop ‘cause the one I’m using is just Photoshop Elements and it’s an old version.
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