first ever photo of sun

[Unklefunk]

literally just took this....this is my first ever attempt

[Drop Of Sun]

Congrats on your first solar image! Some good detail on the spots

What scope and camera did you use?

[Unklefunk]

a nexstar 4se and a canon eos 1100d

[xtreemchaos]

well done,great first shot of sol, you have got some nice detail. thanks for sharing  charl.

[Knighty2112]

Very nice. Well done! Much better than my first attempt trying to snap the sun through my telescope with my IPhone 6+ camera! Hehe!

[Chris]

Congrats, some nice sun spots there.

[Davey-T]

Nice first go, mind you don't get hooked on Solar 

Dave

[Unklefunk]

second go at it

[Unklefunk]

[Davey-T]

Try sliding the camera out of the focuser a bit and you may get the whole disc in.

Dave

[Unklefunk]

Try sliding the camera out of the focuser a bit and you may get the whole disc in.

Dave

its fixed mate on a t ring and adaptor that screws on to the rear cell of the mak.....no adjustment in and out ...bit of a pain lol..

[Stub Mandrel]

Plenty of activity there. Try stacking a sequence of images.

[laudropb]

Very nice image, especially for a first attempt.

[Davey-T]

its fixed mate on a t ring and adaptor that screws on to the rear cell of the mak.....no adjustment in and out ...bit of a pain lol..

Need something like a Varilock. The Sun does change size a bit over the year so may fit in the frame better sometime

Dave

[Bizibilder]

An excellent first couple of images - well done.

[Stub Mandrel]

Need something like a Varilock. The Sun does change size a bit over the year so may fit in the frame better sometime

Dave

If it keeps getting bigger - that's when you worry

[David Smith]

That's a very fine first shot. Well done.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Excellent first shot. Clearly capture both umbra and penumbra of the sunspots

[Pete Presland]

Excellent 1st image welcome to the club!

[uhb1966]

Great shot...what kind of filter did you use?

[kev]

Well done. Good result

Sent from my iPhone so excuse the typos!

[JamesF]

A good first effort, certainly.

I think if you move the camera away from the back of the OTA the image will actually get bigger when it is in focus.  Certainly works that way on my Mak.  I'm not sure what the visual back on the 4SE looks like, but it sounds like you might have the camera as close to the back of the OTA as is possible already, in which case you may be able to get the entire disc in the frame, but the alignment will have to be spot-on.

The Earth is closest to the Sun in winter, so give it a couple of months and it will start getting smaller again.  The difference is quite noticeable between perihelion and aphelion.

(The same effect also occurs with the Moon, too.)

James

[Unklefunk]

Great shot...what kind of filter did you use?

just the standard celestron full aperture solar filter that came with the scope