close-up shots of the SUN with a telescope and webcam

Amateur astronomer Alan Friedman is able to create some remarkable images of the sun by using a WebCam and Telescope. It's not the most complicated of processes, although it\'s not exactly simple, either.  

By using special filters attached to his camera, Friedman captures some of the most lovely details of the Sun's roiling surface. The raw images are colorless and often blurry requiring numerous hours of coloring, adjusting and finessing to tease out the finest details, the results of which hardly resemble what I imagine the 10-million degree surface of Sun might look like.

From his artist statement:

My photographs comprise a solar diary, portraits of a moment in the life of our local star. Most are captured from my backyard in Buffalo, NY. Using a small telescope and narrow band filters I can capture details in high resolution and record movements in the solar atmosphere that change over hours and sometimes minutes. The raw material for my work is black and white and often blurry. As I prepare the pictures, color is applied and tonality is adjusted to better render the features. It is photojournalism of a sort. The portraits are real, not painted. Aesthetic decisions are made with respect for accuracy as well as for the power of the image.

Check out his original images below:

https://alanfriedman.tumblr.com/tagged/sun