In a rare gap in the torrential rain and total cloud cover that seems to be the British Summer this year, I couldn't miss the opportunity to try and get a few images last Sunday. Fortunately, active region 1520 was still putting on a show, following the CME that smashed into earth's magnetic field on the 14th.
I was pleased that, following my failure to get the camera settings right during my last imaging session, this time things seemed to go a little better, remembering to set the ISO below 200.
Processing was my usual routine - 20 RAW images, stacked in Registax 5 with tweaks to the wavelets and de-ringing (more by trial and error as I'm far from mastering the various options). In Photoshop CS3 though, I thought I'd be bold and experiment a little. The two images are processed in largely the same manner, differing only in the blend mode applied to a copy of the background layer as output from Registax. I'm not sure which one I prefer.
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| Blend mode "Lighten" |
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| Blend mode "Multiply" |
