Sun Beam Compositor Node - Any way to reduce the harshness of sun beams?

[Raccoonmancer]

Using the sun beam node, I’ve noticed that it has quite the harsh edges when set to ray length 1, added via a mix node(ADD) onto an image. I was wondering if there was a way to make the edges have a more gradient like transparency to them

[SterlingRoth]

Blur it before you run the sunbeams node

No blur:

Blur:

[Raccoonmancer]

Thank you so very much! This absolutely did the trick

[Lumpengnom]

Depending on what you need you can also do it the other way around and put the blur node after the sunbeam node.