
Derbyshire, UK
09:18 am
Skywatcher 200P, Thousand Oaks solar filter, Nikon D800
GIMP: Adjust curves, desaturate with mono mixer, removing most of blue channel, sharpen, gaussian blur, crop.
Close-up of sunspot AR3405 and a few others.

Skywatcher 200P, Thousand Oaks solar filter, Nikon D800
GIMP: Adjust curves, desaturate with mono mixer, removing most of blue channel, sharpen, gaussian blur, crop.
Close-up of sunspot AR3405 and a few others.
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