Solar Photography group on Facebook – comments

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Is the reason it is white at the edges, because the many colors are mixed, looking through deeper stretches of solar atmosphere? Can you give particulars of lenses, camera, settings, exposure, filters, post-processing, software? I just joined this group and have not had time to look around. I have been following space based and observatory monitoring of the sun for many years. I studied astrophysics and gravitation at UMD College Park in the late 1970’s but have kept an interest in online data and models since then. Neutron stars and black holes are mostly what the gravitational sensors can see but our sun is quite complex, and its models not completely integrated or fully calibrated. Radio telescope methods can scan the surface very precisely, but that too is fragmented now.

After many decades, I no longer think of telescopes, rather I think of it as “image sensors with long focal length lenses”. But arrays of images sensors all focused on one completely monitored target is where most of my interests lie now. I would like to scan the sun and moon interior with gravitational arrays, but there is so much to do and I only have a few years left in my life. The neutrino images of the sun are interesting, and more could be done to use data for all frequencies and energies applying to the sun.

I did not recognize “Lunt LS50THa, Neptune M” as telescope and camera names. And that does not tell me what settings or capabilities you used. I have never pointed a camera at the sun. I was hoping to learn more about that by joining this group.

I like this image but have never seen anything like that. I guess selecting 10% “good” images does that. I just joined this group, so I do not know what all those things you wrote mean. I searched a few of them. I cannot tell if any are a camera. I have used SharpCap for many years to study noise in image sensors, but never for looking at anything.

I asked Microsoft Copilot (AI) what all those things mean. It is pretty smart if you give it full details. I asked particularly about the camera and the meaning of AS, RS, PI at the end.

CoPilot guessed that ““Apollo-M Mini might be a dedicated solar camera or an attachment for capturing solar images.” and

AS might be “AutoStakkert,” a stacking software used for planetary and solar imaging.

RS is Possibly “RegiStax,” another stacking software for planetary and lunar images.

PI could refer to “PixInsight,” a powerful astrophotography processing tool.