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Handheld Sun Photography

Final image
Final Sun image

DO NOT POINT YOUR CAMERA/TELESCOPE OR LOOK AT THE SUN WITHOUT PROPER SOLAR FILTER AND CHECK THE FILTER FIRST TO MAKE SURE THERE'S NO DAMAGE/HOLE!!!!

 

We can do the Moon the Sun is roughly the same. I take this image using burst mode 333 frame were taken and stacked 65 frame.

Equipment

Camera : Sony A7C

Lens : Svbony SV545 203mm f/4.5

Filter : Thounsand Oak Solarite

Camera setting

Shutter speed : 1/4000s

ISO : 640

White balance : Daylight

Drive Mode : Burst - Hi

Image Quality : RAW uncompressed

 

Take a lot of image

Just like the Moon take as many as you can the Sun will drift accross the screen do not worry.

Image 1 Some sub frame example.

Processing the image

PIPP - To align the Sun to the center to the image so stacking software don't mess up the stacking.

  • No convert to monochrome
  • I crop the image to reduce the file size

Siril - Stack

  • Amount of frame stacking is up to you i stack 65 out of 333
Image 2 Stacked Sun image from Siril

Registax 6 - Sharpen

  • Wavelet linear
Image 3 Sharpened image

Darktable - Final touch

  • Tone curve
  • Local contrast
  • Contrast equalizer
  • AgX
Image 4 Final image
 
I don't need to seperate the stacking to avoid rotation issue because i keep my camera leveled decently this time.
 
Summary
 
PIPP - Centered
Siril - Stack
Registax 6 - Sharpen
Darktable - Final touch