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Single frame Canon T5i 300mm, ISO 100, f/8, 1/500 sec very minor contrast tweak in iPhoto otherwise straight from the camera. Active regions visible in the middle (sunspots). |
Chris and Zack said they could see the sunspots with the naked eye. Eeeeeeh! I wasn’t going to stare at it long enough to try to see them, but I could clearly see them through my eyepiece on the camera.
My photo vs. NASA SOHO to show the labeled active regions. I played with curves and sharpness to try to bring them out a little bit more. Had to remind myself it’s through clouds so it’s not going to be super sharp, but WOW look at the size of those things! |
I tried to get some context photos, and I’ve found that the DirectTV dish on the roof makes a convenient foreground target, and it’s vaguely space-ey so I guess it works haha.
If you look closely you can see the sunspots even in this wider shot. Single frame with Canon T5i at 75mm, ISO 100, f/8, 1/500 sec |
And yet another context shot, with my iPhone before I ran inside to get my tripod. I think this weird red sun through clouds beats out my eerie yellow sun from a few years ago. What do you think?
iPhone photo wide angle showing the sun in the sky with the solid gray clouds |
I guess I had HDR turned on because the roofline has a glow around it, but this wasn’t meant to be a cool iPhone photo of the sun just an example of the setting with the weird gray sky and red sun high in the sky. It’s like the color of a sunset but much higher away from the horizon. The iPhone photo makes it look a little darker than it really was because I was trying to properly expose the sun.
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