1st try!

[kharga]

Here is my first attempt at photographing the sun! Used my Explorer 200PDS with Baader filter and Lumix G1!

[Merlin66]

Very good beginning!

You're picking up the surface granulation and some brigher faculae.

I'd try again with slightly different focus settings - see if you can find the "Magic point" where the umbra and penumbra just jump at you. Practise, practise, practise.