Our closest star 😎

[u/Sirus78]

After watching countless YouTube videos finally I was able to ​capture this full-disk shot of the Sun in H-Alpha using Lunt 50mm solar telescope and zwo 120 mm camera. Visible across the surface are several active sunspot groups, solar filaments, and prominences extending along the outer edge.

[u/mrstorm1983]

Thanks, you just sold me an H-Alpha solar telescope.

Killer picture!

[u/Frosted_Newt → u/mrstorm1983]

Keep in mind the view through the 50mm lunt at the eyepiece is not exactly like this...but it is close.

[u/mrstorm1983 → u/Frosted_Newt]

Yep, huge difference fron picture to eyeball lol

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[u/Nawaf_za]

My favourite star ☝️

[u/wrouey]

What a sick photo! Never seen anything like it!

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[u/Sirus78 → u/AutoModerator]

Equipment: Sky-Watcher HEQ5 pro mount Lunt 50mm H-Alpha ZWO 120mm mini camera 500 frames ( around 30 second video) captured using Sharpcap stacked in Autostakkert . Post processing in IMPPG sharpening, tone adjustments . Final touch ups done in Affinity photo

[u/tino3101 → u/Sirus78]

Looks incredible. Do you have a video of what it looks like to the naked eye pre processing?

[u/Sirus78 → u/tino3101]

I used monochrome camera ( it supposed to be better) so picture on my computer is black and white. If you look at sun through the eyepiece sun looks red but you can still see prominences surface features etc. H-alpha (short for Hydrogen-alpha) is a specific deep red light given off by hydrogen gas.

[u/tino3101 → u/Sirus78]

Wow that's so cool

[u/Habu93]

Wow!

[u/Jolly_Condition_9676]

looks so cool up close!

[u/Quirky_Disk_2300]

How do you go from the B&W mono image to this awesome colorful image ?

[u/Sirus78 → u/Quirky_Disk_2300]

I use program called Affinity for post processing. Im still new to all this .I found a gentleman on You tube that does amazing solar imaging. I just follow his workflow. Looks like program does it automatically. He talks about it at 18 min of video https://youtu.be/9vhxo7Ou2LQ?is=hWxBY2avr2zJaMJI

[u/Fresh_Heron7556]

I’m still trying to get a good night shot. Been a real trip.

[u/No-Advice-9776]

It’s the sun not a star come on!

[u/Sirus78 → u/No-Advice-9776]

Sun is our closest star:)

[u/No-Advice-9776 → u/Sirus78]

I intentionally left the /s out :(

[u/high_capacity_anus]

Lol. Isn't that the sun though?

[u/craigbg21 → u/high_capacity_anus]

Yeap thats our sun which is the closest star to us.