Came back from my regular Saturday outing yesterday and decided to get the scope out for some solar observing. I have not done a lot of solar observing but I really like the casual nature of it. No need to worry about lights, or cold and no need to wear ski pants!

I used The Explore Scientific 152mm Refractor with Thousand Oaks Glass Solar Filter. At first I thought wow - there is nothing here ... Just the Solar Disk.

After about 20 seconds a small group of spots came into view in the lower right quarter of the sun. I boosted power to 60x (the sketch notes are incorrect - I was thinking about the SCT FL) and then found a nice detailed view of this little complex consisting of one major spot and several mini spots. I did shoot video but had real trouble seeing the spots in the LCD Screen - so I decided to sketch instead.

I put together a time lapse video here (on YouTube) of a solar observing session on the driveway. The images were taken every 20 seconds on my DSLR which was setup on a tripod.