The passing beauty of Bailey's beads is shown on this picture taken
using my Maksutov - Cassegrain telescope with 1/1000s exposure.
This short exposure recorded not only Bailey's beads but prominences and inner
part of solar corona too. The image was processed in order to remove diffuse
hight caused by light diffraction. The contrast between the brightest and
the darkest part of the image is about 1 : 1,000,000. The processing
was successful thanks to the high quality film
Fujicolor Superia 800, scanner Nikon LS-2000 and scientific image
analyser
SOFO ACC 4.0. The same what I have
already told about the diamond ring picture is valid for the picture you are looking
at. Even the best film is not able to record Bailey's beads together with the
fine structure of solar corona. The using of more pictures taken with longer
exposure times makes it possible. The
result
you can see on next page.
