Cracking sunspots today

[Astrokev]

Spaceweather was showing a superb presentation of sunspots this morning, 31st July. Couldn't resist trying to image them, since we had a bit of nice weather.

These were taken through my usual set-up - D300 and 420mm telephoto. 20 shots stacked in Registax 5 and tweaked slightly in CS3.

The images are shown in higher resolution on my blog - link below.

[malc-c]

Nice.... very sharply focused and excellent detail

[smerral]

I agree, excellent shots - last few days have been nothing but cloud here.

[Photosbykev]

very nice detail, I just wish the clouds would go somewhere else!

[Cazagee]

I saw those too

Lovely images, well done.

Carol

[markt]

Great images Kev! It's good to see the sun with some decent activity on again finally

[Astrokev]

Nice.... very sharply focused and excellent detail

Thanks Malcolm. One of the beauties of using an autofocus DSLR and telephoto, rather than a scope, is that it's easy to get good focus.

I'm keen to get my DSLR mounted on one of my scopes to get a bigger image scale, but suspect I'll have more difficulty getting the focus as sharp, even using live view. Still, on my list of things to do!

[lukebl]

Beautiful crisp image. Perfectly done!

[Bizibilder]

Very nice - good to see the spottiness is back!

[spaceboy]

Great images Kevin. The sun has been interesting to observe in white light the past few days and it's freaky to think that you can fit Earth in to one of those sun spots.

[Macavity]

Great stuff. Like the wider fields, putting the spots in the "big picture"...