Our journey takes us to our very own daytime star, the Sun. This of course is a new dimension of photographing the skies for me, and I am happy with the results of my first try at capturing the surface of the Sun. On the day of the capture, the surface of the Sun was active with prominences, sunspots, plages, granules, solar flares, and filaments. For more information on surface features on the Sun, see this article from Love the Night Sky.
The full solar disk below was captured with a Coronado PST paired with GPCAM 130. The close up featured images used the same equipment, however added a 3x Barlow lens to increase the magnification. Each image is a stack of the best 25% of 700 frames.
Full disk of the Sun on 20.05.2024
I won’t encourage you to look up because of the damaging rays from the Sun, but please continue to enjoy an amazing Universe! 🙂
Congratulations!
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Super shots. You picked a great time to start solar imaging!
Very much appreciated. Especially with months and months of continuous cloudy night skies 🙈.
Amazing photos Dex! Sometimes solar observing and photography is a good alternative when the night skies are not cooperating LOL. At one point I was actually thinking about getting a Coronado telescope but I never got around to it. Amateur observers especially new ones do need to realize that solar observing can be dangerous without the proper equipment, though. Thank you as always for sharing your views of the Universe with us! 👍💯🔭😎
I have to admit, the night skies are not cooperating 🤣. Truthfully the clouds seem to be coming at daytime as well this week 🙈. But I have been wanting to do this for years now but could not get my hand on a solar scope. They are in such high demand around the world. I figured persons may be trying to sell after the solar eclipse so I pressed my luck and was able to get one. I will keep at it 🙂