The Sun

For my solar images, all the full disk images are taken at prime focus of my 60mm F/4 guidescope with the ZWO ASI224MC camera and all of the individual sunspot images are taken at prime focus of my 200mm F/8 RC Cassegrain with the ZWO ASI224MC camera. Both telescopes are fitted with full aperture white light filters made from Baader Solar film. Processing has got fairly routine as well and for the most part I'm taking videos with 1000 subframes, using the best few hundred. Stacking and initial processing using AstroSurface. A further bit of sharpening, colourising with Photoshop CS3 and denoising with Topaz Denoise AI.

24th August. The past 3 months, June, July and August have been great for solar imaging. I've been able to get out most mornings to do full disk images and images of individual sunspots. So the content is too much to display on one page and I have now split it up into separate pages for each month.

This page now acts as a gateway to each separate monthly page, as listed below.

October 2024

September 2024

August 2024

July 2024

June 2024