Images taken on the 8th July 2023 with Canon 70D camera plus a Canon 100-400mm lens fitted with a 2x teleconverter lens with a glass solar filter attached. Twenty images captured with an exposure time 1/500th second and ISO200, stacked in Registak6 and processed in PS.
We had a lovely clear sunny day today and I managed to capture some pictures of this very dark inky black sunspot that looks like the shape of an old fashion keyhole, I wonder what it’s going to do over the next couple of days!
Images taken on the 8th July 2023 with Canon 70D camera plus a Canon 100-400mm lens fitted with a 2x teleconverter lens with a glass solar filter attached. Twenty images captured with an exposure time 1/500th second and ISO200, stacked in Registak6 and processed in PS.
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Solar observing is so thrilling at the moment you never know what you are going to see, this afternoon I saw beautiful prominences all around the limb, sunspots sprinkled all over the surface and some lovely wiggly filaments…. what more could you ask for with our Amazing Sun :-)
Images captured with a Lunt 60mm PT solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 25 images were captured for each set, one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4. SUNSPOT COUNTS HIT A 21-YEAR HIGH: Story from Spaceweather.com https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=03&month=07&year=2023 The sun is partying like it's 2002. That's the last time sunspot counts were as high as they are now. The monthly average sunspot number for June 2023 was 163, according to the Royal Observatory of Belgium's Solar Influences Data Analysis Center. This eclipses every month since Sept. 2022: Solar Cycle 25 wasn't expected to be this strong. When it began in Dec. 2019, forecasters believed it would be a weak cycle akin to its immediate predecessor Solar Cycle 24. If that forecast had panned out, Solar Cycle 25 would be one of the weakest solar cycles in a century.
Instead, Solar Cycle 25 has shot past Solar Cycle 24 and may be on pace to rival some of the stronger cycles of the 20th century. The last time sunspot numbers were this high, the sun was on the verge of launching the Great Halloween Storms of 2003, which included the strongest X-ray solar flare ever recorded (X45),auroras as far south as Texas, and auroras as far south as Texas, and a CME so powerful it was ultimately detected by the Voyager spacecraft at the edge of the solar system. Wow :-o this huge sunspot is just spectacular! Images taken with a Canon 70D camera plus a Canon 100-400mm lens fitted with a 2x tele converter and a glass solar filter, making a focal length of 1280mm. Twenty images were captured with an exposure time 1/640th second and ISO200, stacked in Registack6 and processes in PS. Giant sunspot AR 3354 has a 'beta-gamma-delta' class magnetic field that harbours energy for X-class solar flares. (From information on Spacewether.com on the 1st July 2023) Live view of this huge Sunspot (AR 3354) as seen through my camera and lens on Movie mode, it’s a very big sunspot nearly 10 times the diameter of our Earth…Wow!
How exciting…there were a couple of very large and active prominences around the limb of the Sun late this afternoon, I just managed to capture them before the Sun went down :-)
The images were captured with a Lunt 60mm PT solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 25 images were captured one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4. Jun 1, 2023 NOAA’s GOES satellite time-lapse of Solar Cycle 25 from December 2019 through April 2023 alongside the progression of the number of sunspots. The Solar Ultraviolet Imagers (SUVI) create images of the solar corona at six different extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. NOAA’s space weather forecasters use SUVI imagery to issue alerts and watches for space weather storms. Please go to link below for everything you would want to know about Space Weather.
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