Lots of data on the sunspots that litter the sun today. Clouds and hazy skies made imaging somewhat difficult but it was still good enough to get some shots. Not as sharp as I had anticipated, but the white light images turned out okay.
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Simon,
On the 4th picture down, a negative Ha image, how did you manage to bring the spot and it's immediate surroundings into sharp focus while throwing off the focus for the surrounding area? I think it's what photographers call " Bokeh ". It's using a shallow depth of field to concentrate the viewer's attention on the primary subject of an image. Using a DSLR this is achieved with a " fast " lens. The iPhone does it using internal software. How have you achieved this with a solar image? PhotoShop? However you did it, it works! Looks good!!
James
Lunt 8x32 SUNoculars
Orion 70mm Solar Telescope
Celestron AstroMaster Alt/Az Mount
Meade Coronado SolarMax II 60 DS
Meade Coronado SolarMax II 90 DS
Meade Coronado AZS Alt/Az Mount
Astro-Tech AT72EDII with Altair solar wedge
Celestron NexStar 102GT with Altair solar wedge
Losmandy AZ8 Alt/Az Mount
Sky-Watcher AZGTI Alt-Az GoTo mount
Cameras: ZWO ASI178MM, PGR Grasshopper, PGR Flea
Lunt, Coronado, TeleVue, Orion and Meade eyepieces
Its an effect in Photoshop known as Tilt-Shift. Technically, it is not true tilt shift in the traditional sense.
DeepSolar64 wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 4:39 am
Simon,
On the 4th picture down, a negative Ha image, how did you manage to bring the spot and it's immediate surroundings into sharp focus while throwing off the focus for the surrounding area? I think it's what photographers call " Bokeh ". It's using a shallow depth of field to concentrate the viewer's attention on the primary subject of an image. Using a DSLR this is achieved with a " fast " lens. The iPhone does it using internal software. How have you achieved this with a solar image? PhotoShop? However you did it, it works! Looks good!!
Simon2940 wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 5:19 pm
Its an effect in Photoshop known as Tilt-Shift. Technically, it is not true tilt shift in the traditional sense.
DeepSolar64 wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 4:39 am
Simon,
On the 4th picture down, a negative Ha image, how did you manage to bring the spot and it's immediate surroundings into sharp focus while throwing off the focus for the surrounding area? I think it's what photographers call " Bokeh ". It's using a shallow depth of field to concentrate the viewer's attention on the primary subject of an image. Using a DSLR this is achieved with a " fast " lens. The iPhone does it using internal software. How have you achieved this with a solar image? PhotoShop? However you did it, it works! Looks good!!
James
Hey, it works! Looks good!
Lunt 8x32 SUNoculars
Orion 70mm Solar Telescope
Celestron AstroMaster Alt/Az Mount
Meade Coronado SolarMax II 60 DS
Meade Coronado SolarMax II 90 DS
Meade Coronado AZS Alt/Az Mount
Astro-Tech AT72EDII with Altair solar wedge
Celestron NexStar 102GT with Altair solar wedge
Losmandy AZ8 Alt/Az Mount
Sky-Watcher AZGTI Alt-Az GoTo mount
Cameras: ZWO ASI178MM, PGR Grasshopper, PGR Flea
Lunt, Coronado, TeleVue, Orion and Meade eyepieces
Very nice, Simon.
I applied ‘tilt shift’ to some of my images a while ago and really like the effect. Looks great with your hi-res inverted sunspot.
Stu.
H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
Carbon60 wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 7:18 am
Very nice, Simon.
I applied ‘tilt shift’ to some of my images a while ago and really like the effect. Looks great with your hi-res inverted sunspot.
Stu.
I have to be careful as to not end up producing something that is extremely gimmicky for the sake of views, but there is a certain alure to seeing it in a more 3D view which is something we would never actually see.
Carbon60 wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 7:18 am
Very nice, Simon.
I applied ‘tilt shift’ to some of my images a while ago and really like the effect. Looks great with your hi-res inverted sunspot.
Stu.
I have to be careful as to not end up producing something that is extremely gimmicky for the sake of views, but there is a certain alure to seeing it in a more 3D view which is something we would never actually see.
I completely agree.
H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
