The Sun, Before and After

I've been asked what stacking does and how do you bring out detail.
Stacking removes noise and background grain.

On the right is 500 frames of video stacked. 
The dark region to the far right is nice and clean of noise from the camera.

On the left is the stacked image run thru the Wavelets in Registax. 
Wavelets do to images what a high or low pass filter does to sound.
The end result is that distortion caused from our atmosphere is reduced.


This is the same dataset as