thanks for the inputs folks.
Seth, your result was the about the type of sun I was getting, but the TG09 has a harder edge that I kept trying to sharpen by increasing the glow power and compensating with lower intensities. I was down to 1e-11 intensity and powers of 10. I started getting a donut effect and the sun disk edge was still discrete. Also couldn't pull in the glow edge beyond a certain point, just wouldn't get any smaller.
I was concerned with the extreme numbers because if I have to use extreme measures to do something supposedly simple (like in TG09), then maybe I'm using the wrong tool...
Turns out my biggest problem was the disk size. I had a 6 deg disk in TG09, had to drop it to 1.5 in TG2. For some reason too large a disk can't blend well with the atmo halo.
I still need to add that fainter streaming asymmetric glow but this is a good start. (probably a low-altitude effect)
I should go back to TG09 and see exactly what it does there.
For the curious:
sun strength = 6
haze density = .08
bluesky density = .47
haze glow amount = 1e-6
haze glow power = 6
bluesky glow amount = .015
bluesky glow power = .75
enviro light = .19