Besides the trip to Oregon, my autumn images so far have been of the sky. Most of them were taken with the ZWO Seestar S50 telescope. I told it to point at Pluto two successive nights, and from comparing the two images I believe I found the elusive former planet. The arrow in the inset points to a dot that is not apparent in the circled area of previous night's image.

Next I have a DSLR image of the Sun. What color is the Sun? Images of the Sun that show it some shade of yellow/orange/red are either tinted by the color of the camera filter or are b&w images that were colorized. I shot this one through my glass filter which is almost a neutral color, processed it in Photoshop as b&w, then colorized it by adjusting the channels in Levels. Red=1.7, Green=0.6 and Blue=0.2 as recommended by Merlin66 on SolarChatForum.

Back in the old days, to get a b&w image, you used b&w film. Now in the digital era, the only b&w cameras are extremely expensive Leicas ($6,000+) or specialized astronomy cameras. B&w sensors theoretically have more resolution than a color sensor of the same size. Any highly-detailed image you see of the Sun is certainly a colorized image from a monochrome sensor. But for now, doing it this way is just a way to control the color of the final image.

Just for fun I went back and reprocessed my partial eclipse image from 2014. So is the sun yellowish or reddish? It depends on the guy moving the Photoshop sliders.

Pluto among the stars

The Sun, colorized

Original

Reprocessed