Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Full Disk H-Alpha


This is my first attempt to stitch together a full-disk image in H-Alpha,  It's definitely not up to the standards of the folks in the Yahoo PST group, but it's here, warts and all, as an illustration of my evolution as a solar imager.  My photo package does not autostitch a panorama, so there was lots of layer switching and moving around of images to make this pic.  I'm not sure I'll do it again as it is incredibly time-consuming!

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