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~ New Sunspots AR1960 & 1959 ~

1/22/2014

~ Image taken 21st January 2014 ~

Another set of interesting sunspots showed up on the Sun on the 21st January, not as large as AR1944 but it’s causing some surface disruption around them.

If you would like to know more about this current Solar Cycle 24, than please go NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre Solar Physics web page where you will find out everything you need to know about our amazing Star.

http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml

My image was taken with a Canon 7D and Meade ED80 refractor telescope with a glass solar filter attached and 2x Barlow lens for more magnification, exposure 1/350th second, ISO 400, one single image.

I wanted to stack 12 images into Registack6 for more detail on the surface, but for some reason it would not accept my files…I will have to look into that matter later…

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Goodbye Sunspot AR 1944…what a beauty!

1/12/2014

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Sunspot (Active Region 1944)
11th January 2014

This huge sunspot group is now heading toward the edge of the solar disc as the sun rotates on its axis; it’s been very fascinating watching these incredible sunspots over the past couple of days.

Sun Warning: Please only look at the sun with proper solar filters attached to your camera lenses or telescope or use the projection method.

Image orientated as seen in my camera lens with the Sun setting in the west in the Southern Hemisphere on the afternoon of the 11th January 2014.

Photo taken with a Canon DSLR 40D on a tripod with Canon 100-400mm lens and 2x converter (with a glass Orion solar filter attached) lens set at 400mm = 1280mm. 12 exposures stacked in Registack6 all exposures 1/1000th second, at F5.6 and ISO 200.

Image posted on Spaceweather.com
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=92844

If you would like to see more stunning images of the Sun please go to
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) web page at: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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~ Huge Sunspot (AR1944) on the surface of the Sun ~

1/7/2014

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All I can say is …Wow!

In between the cloud patches this afternoon I finally got to see these amazing huge sunspots on the surface of the sun. As I’m away on holidays I had to use my camera setup for capturing wildlife…and it worked perfectly to capture these spectacular sunspots :-)

This is the largest sunspot to grace the suns surface in over 10 years, and it’s quite remarkable considering how quite this solar cycle has been.

Image taken on the 7th January 2014 with a Canon DSLR 40D on a tripod with Canon 100-400mm lens and 2x converter (with a glass solar filter attached to lens) set at 400mm = 1280mm, exposure 1/1000th second, at F5.6 and ISO 500, one single image.

Photo taken at Leslie Dam just outside of Warwick in Queensland, Australia.

Sun Warning: Please only look at the sun with proper solar filters attached to your camera lenses or telescope or do the projection method.

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~ New Sunspots AR1960 & 1959 ~

Goodbye Sunspot AR 1944…what a beauty!

~ Huge Sunspot (AR1944) on the surface of the Sun ~

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