Staring at the sun

Staring at the sun

First ever go at solar photography. This is the result of 300 exposures of 0.001 second taken with my telescope and a Baader ND5 film. We can actually count the different sun spots and there’s even some real detail in them. Very cool.

The sun is a yellow dwarf but it’s not really yellow. It emits all visible wavelength colors evenly and so it appears white from space. Our atmosphere gives it the warm yellow-orange color we all know. Here is a side-by-side from the orginal processed capture and the adjusted color curves.

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