Friday, 6 November 2020

Sunspot AR2781

Last night the Moon gave me a photo opportunity (see previous post). Today it was the turn of the Sun. I particularly wanted to see whether I could capture an image of the first decent Sunspot of the new solar cycle.

Sunspot AR2781

You can see it at about 7 o'clock on the above photo. To give some idea of size - the Earth is smaller than the top dark blob. Photo taken with the Canon 70D fitted with 100-400mm zoom and, most importantly, a solar filter to cut down the light from the Sun by something like 10,000 times making it safe to point the camera directly at the Sun.

A closer crop:

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4 comments:

  1. Adrian Ward6 November 2020 at 12:07

    I thought I read that there were very few sun spots at the moment.

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    1. Midmarsh John6 November 2020 at 12:10

      Adrian: There were very few. Mainly small and short lived. This only appeared a few days ago.

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  2. Ellen D.6 November 2020 at 15:33

    The moon photo and the sun photo are really amazing! So much detail! Thank you so much for sharing your photographic skills (and equipment) with us!

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    1. Midmarsh John6 November 2020 at 16:45

      Ellen: Thank you for your kind comment. Much appreciated.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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