This was the first time I ran a full solar capture and processing workflow inside my own apps. Light came down through the Lunt LS60MT, into a Player One Apollo-M Mini, into Laminar for the SER recording, and out into Strata for stacking, sharpening, and coloring. 11,159 frames at one millisecond apiece in narrowband H-alpha.
Strata's solar path finally got tested against real photons. The WOW Solar sharpening engine, the disc-mask geometry shared between Sharpen and Color, the gradient-map colorization presets, all of it was built on synthetic data and the math behind the algorithms, because I did not own a solar scope when I wrote it. Today I owned one for about an hour before pointing it at the Sun. The pipeline held. The disc-mask snapped to the limb. The prominences came through clean. There is more tuning ahead, especially on the Color phase, but the bones are right.
If you shoot solar in H-alpha or Ca-K and would be willing to share an SER from a recent session, I am still collecting test data at support@macobservatory.com. The more real-world variety the engine sees, the better it gets.
11,159 × 1.00 ms
Sugar Land, TX
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