Amazingly Sharp Image of a Sunspot

[FLO]

An amazing image of a sunspot three times the size of the Earth has been made using the National Science Foundation's Dunn Solar Telescope at Sunspot, NM, which was recently upgraded with an adaptive optics system and a new high-resolution CCD camera. The Dunn telescopes flexible mirror can be deformed 130 times a second to compensate for atmospheric distortion.

http://tinyurl.com/djnz5

[Astroman]

This is really an amazing image!

I used an image from the Swedish Vacuum Telescope in my talks on the Sun last year. It had a brand new adaptive optics system attached to a 1 meter solar scope. Those images were incredible, but this one blows them out of the water! You can actually sense the depth of depressions on individual convection cells. And the resolution of the magnetic filaments entering/leaving the spot is fantastic!

Thanks for the link, Steve!

[daz]

They are amazing images. And that's one big hole!!!

Good find, Steve!

[OXO]

Wow cant say as i have seen anything like this on the Internet before quite amazing.

James