Astro: Sunspots

Hi all. Haven't posted in a while. We finally had a sunny day today, and
with the sun becoming more active, I decided to try my luck at taking some
images of the sunspot groups that are active right now. The images were
cropped and processed in photoshop. There appears to be at least 6 sunspots
in one image. The other has three sunspots, the largest of which has an odd
spike to it. Anyway, they didn't come out too bad considering the equipment
used:

Konus 200 mm f5 newtonian with an
off axis Thousand oaks glass solar filter,
2x barlow
Hutech Canon T1i at ASA 200
Shutter speed 1/350 s

those look cool!

until recently you had a pretty long spot free spell from what I recall in
the news


"George" wrote in message
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Hi all. Haven't posted in a while. We finally had a sunny day today, and
with the sun becoming more active, I decided to try my luck at taking some
images of the sunspot groups that are active right now. The images were
cropped and processed in photoshop. There appears to be at least 6
sunspots
in one image. The other has three sunspots, the largest of which has an
odd
spike to it. Anyway, they didn't come out too bad considering the
equipment
used:

Konus 200 mm f5 newtonian with an
off axis Thousand oaks glass solar filter,
2x barlow
Hutech Canon T1i at ASA 200
Shutter speed 1/350 s

I'll say. Good to look up there and see some structure of a change.

George

"Richard Crisp" wrote in message
m...
those look cool!

until recently you had a pretty long spot free spell from what I recall in
the news


"George" wrote in message
m...
Hi all. Haven't posted in a while. We finally had a sunny day today,
and
with the sun becoming more active, I decided to try my luck at taking
some
images of the sunspot groups that are active right now. The images were
cropped and processed in photoshop. There appears to be at least 6
sunspots
in one image. The other has three sunspots, the largest of which has an
odd
spike to it. Anyway, they didn't come out too bad considering the
equipment
used:

Konus 200 mm f5 newtonian with an
off axis Thousand oaks glass solar filter,
2x barlow
Hutech Canon T1i at ASA 200
Shutter speed 1/350 s