Starship Asterisk*

The stacked monochrome image was inverted and then colored.--thanks.

Jim
Jim Lafferty
Redlands, Ca

[quote="RickM"][quote]A detailed solar view was captured originally in a very specific color of red light, then rendered in black and white, and then color inverted. Once complete, the resulting image was added to a starfield, then also color inverted. [/quote]
if you color invert a black and white picture, don't you still have a black and white picture? How then does the sun's image get its bluish cast?[/quote]
The original description is a bit off. Actually, the source image should be described as monochromatic: there is only a single value (intensity) associated with each pixel. This is how the image was collected, not rendered. The result of this sort of imaging is a grayscale image. However, such images are often rendered in color, using some sort of mapping between intensity and color, since this can let us see more detail, and also can provide a more aesthetically pleasing image. That appears to have been done here.

[quote]A detailed solar view was captured originally in a very specific color of red light, then rendered in black and white, and then color inverted. Once complete, the resulting image was added to a starfield, then also color inverted. [/quote]
if you color invert a black and white picture, don't you still have a black and white picture? How then does the sun's image get its bluish cast?

[quote="AustiMN"]

It reminds me of a spongy old mushroom, seen from the top down.[/quote]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-RLeehzfYA[/youtube]

It reminds me of a spongy old mushroom, seen from the top down.

Thanks for commenting - twice - on your fascinating-looking image, Jim.

Ann

The Sun?
Strange image :?

An Ocean of Flames.... 8-)


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The black sun looks to me like a micrograph of a white blood cell.

[quote="JimLafferty"]@Anthony>>>>the image was taken on September 26, 2012.

Regards!

Jim

Jim Lafferty
Redland, California 92374
http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty[/quote]
Thanks Jim!

@Anthony>>>>the image was taken on September 26, 2012.

Regards!

Jim

Jim Lafferty
Redland, California 92374
http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty

Doesn't anyone think it looks like a tennis ball after the dog dropped it, besides me?

It looks like a lymphocyte.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphocyte

Looks like a transluscent gray bubble to me. Pretty cool though.

The Black Sun and inverted starfield look very much like a tennis ball at the end of rough life lying on a slab of concrete.

A cell undergoing mitosis.

When was this picture taken? I keep track of sunspots in white light, and find it interesting to correlate hydrogen alpha and ultraviolet images with how the Sun appears through a humble white light solar filter.

It looks like a human, unfertilized egg.

To answer Henrystar>>>> no, the star field is not correct for the sun's location at that moment---The solar image was captured with a Lunt 100 Ha telescope double stacked with a Coronado 90 Ha filter for .5angstroms. The starfield was captured with a Takahashi FSQ106N refractor. The camera was an imaging source DMK41 USB CCD camera.
Thanks to all for your kind comments

Jim

Jim Lafferty
Redlands, California
http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty

It looks like The Boss at the end of a particularly nasty video game.

a dangerous asteroid !

[quote="henrystar"]Is the star field correct for some date?[/quote]

We were pondering the same question. Perhaps a star field image 12 hours before or after the sun photo?

Had to save the .gif of the "Diagram of temporal changes in Earth's magnetic declination field." - will be staring at that over and over. Fascinating!

Looks like an ovary to me :?

http://sjbm.fr/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/fecondation.jpg
:-)

It looks like a used sponge ball i used to play with as a kid!