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 The sun today
            had a rather featureless disk, one tiny area to the extreme upper
            left showing some faculae. The real attraction was the giant
            floating prominence on the lower right, it was raining down bright
            pieces as well. Not to bad for solar minimum!

            
Processing: Extracted
            disk from green channel, prominences from red channel, and averaged
            2 to8 images. Applied midtone curve adjustment in PS, then wavlet
            deconvolution, and dynamic background flattening process in Pix
            Insight. Combined and colorized disk and prominence image in
            Photoshop per accepted standard coloration creteria.

Instrument:  Coronado PST 40mm
Platform:  Bogen Tripod
Camera:  Sony P10
Exposure:  Auto 0, -2
Location:  Scottsdale, Arizona
Elevation:  1000 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature: 102F
Processing: Photoshop CS
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