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Picture taken at Sandsli outside Bergen, Norway.  June 11 2005
Camera: Canon EOS 20D.
Lens: Vixen R200SS 8" reflector plus 2x Sigma APO Teleconverter (1600mm total).
Filter: Baader AstroSolar safety film.
Exposure: 1/640s at f:8, 400ISO.

Processing:
Photoshop: Cropping and saving pictures as monochrome (the green channel), 16 bit TIFF

Registax 3: Stacked the 4 best of 18 images
Wavelets: 1; 3,1; 3,1; 2,4; 1; 1

Final processing in Photoshop:
Unsharp mask: 150 / 4 / 2
Levels 0,60
Contrast: +15

Colour version:

The Sun

Sharpness and contrast is better in monochrome (green channel is usually best)

© 2005: Odd Høydalsvik