This is (almost) the raw version straight from the camera. Since I used a monochrome camera, the Sun obviously has no color.

I prefer the solar flares to appear brighter. Simply inverting the image would result in a white background, so I manually manipulate the histogram instead. Rather than inverting the brightest areas from black to white, they remain black, which creates this bright outer rim.

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