Jacob's first solar image
A turning point in a long career in astrophotography, this is our Treasurer’s first attempt at solar imaging. It was shot through a Grasshopper Grey Point camera aimed through a Lunt 80 Solar Scope, single stacked, and is comprised of 90 stacked TIFF images processed in Registax and Photoshop.
I always marvel that the same Sun that brings us life could be such a writhing, hot ball of lethal, radioactive majesty up close. I say, “Keep it where it is, and, with Jacob’s help, look at it from afar!” Wonderful, isn’t it, both for real and in this image?
