Since the beginning of the year (except for a tiny sunspot on the 3rd January) the Sun has been completely spotless…but that’s not to say its not been active. There have been quite a few large coronal holes opening up on its surface, which has produced some stunning auroras in the northern hemisphere.
If you visit the spaceweather.com website you can see all those beautiful images at:
http://www.spaceweather.com
As to this image that I’ve just posted onto my blog…I don’t know why I went out again in this heat wave to take another blank image of the Sun, but I just wanted to get one more image of its smooth unblemished surface before a sunspot marked its surface.
I took this image at 4pm yesterday afternoon while it was still 35 degrees Celsius here on the east coast of Australia with 100% humidity…. once I took the images I ran and jumped into our swimming pool to cool off…it was So HOT!!!
Images taken with a 127mm refractor telescope with a glass solar filter attached and a Canon 700D camera. There were 10 images stacked in Registak, exposures were 1/1000th second and ISO100.
If you visit the spaceweather.com website you can see all those beautiful images at:
http://www.spaceweather.com
As to this image that I’ve just posted onto my blog…I don’t know why I went out again in this heat wave to take another blank image of the Sun, but I just wanted to get one more image of its smooth unblemished surface before a sunspot marked its surface.
I took this image at 4pm yesterday afternoon while it was still 35 degrees Celsius here on the east coast of Australia with 100% humidity…. once I took the images I ran and jumped into our swimming pool to cool off…it was So HOT!!!
Images taken with a 127mm refractor telescope with a glass solar filter attached and a Canon 700D camera. There were 10 images stacked in Registak, exposures were 1/1000th second and ISO100.
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