Embarrassed to post, but……

[Peco4321]

I fully appreciate I am amongst some amazing solar imagers here, but here goes. Whilst clearing out the shed Saturday 13th March I set up my old 3” frac and did some solar projection and managed to see a sun spot, ignore all the marks on the old plate, it was definitely there. Can anyone confirm. 

[Sunshine]

I remember being blown away the first time did the same with my old Meade 60mm refractor, nothing embarrassing about sharing. Thanks for posting, this brought back fond memories of my late father and I setting up the projection plate, my heart raced at the site of a few black dots on a bright disc.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice one! I have fond memories of setting up the 70 mm F/10 refractor we had at school during lunch breaks to have a look at sunspots with the solar projection kit we had built. Great fun.

[Craney]

Yep, definitely a sunspot.

This resource gives you a daily image of visible solar.

https://www.spaceweather.com/

[Kitsunegari]

Solar projection is rather amazing,  when i was 13 years old ; i randomly stumbled upon this with my very first telescope;  a meade 4500 reflector scope.      It actually completely changed my life, as this was the first time i had ever used a telescope;   i literally saw a burning asteroid , comet, or other space debris with fumes and ejecta coming off while it transited the sun on the paper.

 

I remember it like it was yesterday.    Literally had vapor trails ejecting out of it like an aircraft engine would, except it was not an airplane.  Never saw anything like it ever again since. (but wish i would!)

[Nigella Bryant]

Something I used to do in my teens, was wonderful to do. Thanks for sharing.

[David Smith]

Spent many years studying spots via solar projection before full aperture filters became a thing / affordable.

[Luke]

Very cool! That looks like a nice old frac and a nice mount too.

[callisto]

If it's one thing I have learned on here its never be ashamed about sharing images/posts...well done BTW  

 

Mark

[John]

Nothing wrong with solar projection.

I used that method with my old 60mm refractor to show the transit of Venus to my childrens friends back in 2004. I even snapped a photo of the event I think.

The simple huygens eyepieces that came with those scopes were ideal for solar projection. Todays more complex designs would not fare too well I think

 

 

[Chris]

Lovely vintage frac and yes it certainly looks like a Sun spot to me, nice capture