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  • My latest photos of the Sun, and gear setup

    June 3, 2026
  • solar rotation test

    Just confirming that my shot is the same temp solar feature that this guy shot. It is. I had to rotate and invert black and white on mine to see it, but it is. I love that I finally recognized some temp feature I shot in someone else’s shot. I’ve only been doing solar 4…

    May 10, 2026
  • Animated GIF of motion on the Sun that I shot.

    18 megs. May take a moment to load after you click it. Or you can download it. Here’s another I did if you like this one.

    May 10, 2026
  • XML for all “Black only and proms” solar processing in imPPG

    z-black-only-proms (download zipped XML for imPPG) Here’s the text only: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. <imppg> <lucy-richardson sigma=”1.30000“ iterations=”50“ deringing=”false“/> <unsharp_mask_list> <unsharp_mask adaptive=”false“ sigma=”1.30000“ amount_min=”1.00000“ amount_max=”1.00000“ amount_threshold=”0.01000“ amount_width=”0.10000“/> </unsharp_mask_list> <tone_curve smooth=”true“ is_gamma=”false“>0.00000;0.00000;0.20899;0.90789;0.33730;0.02193;0.71296;0.00000;0.94048;0.00000;</tone_curve> <normalization enabled=”false“ min=”0.00000“ max=”1.00000“/> </imppg>

    May 7, 2026
  • Some tips on solar photography

    NOT MY IMAGE: THIS IS NOT MY PHOTO. This is one a new shooter posted on a forum, and asked for advice. But a lot of what I say here is useful even if you’re not having this much trouble, or even just trying to figure it out. I agree with the people saying “out…

    April 19, 2026
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