Even bigger spot on the Sun today

[Nakedgun]

Shot with my trusty Pentax:

[mariosi]

Nice capture David!

Thank you for sharing

Marios

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice catch. Nothing but cloud here, alas

[Stu]

Fantastic picture, what a nice piece of luck having a huge AR at the same time as the partial eclipse.

What kit are you using?

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[Peter Drew]

At last got a peek at the big sunspot through thin cloud with my 220mm refractor stopped down to 203mm with an Astrozap WL filter. Wonderful detail, one of the best Sunspots I've seen in decades of solar viewing. 

[Nakedgun]

Thank you for your comments.

BigMakStutov,

Pentax K-5IIs / Pentax DA*300 f/4 / Pentax-DA Rear Converter 1.4X AW / Pentax Rear Converter-A 2X-S, with a Thousand Oaks RG-film filter (not shown).

JPEG straight from the box.

[Stu]

Thanks Nakedgun, looks nice!

Another X class flare just gone off

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[chiltonstar]

I like the near symmetry of the image - what are the chances of an eclipse and a major sunspot coinciding?

Chris