As you can see from today’s Astronomy Photo of the Day, the sun is becoming quite a bit active these days. I ran outside this afternoon and tried to figure out how to get my point and shoot camera to take decent pictures of the sun through the spotting scope, but, as you can see, I failed:
Both of these spots were taken from the same image:
It’s challenging focusing on the sun through a point and shoot camera on a spotting scope; there’s heat making you uncomfortable, glare dimming the screen, etc. etc. I tried using my parasol this time, which helped somewhat, but I’m still looking for a better way to do things…
I pushed the images as far as I could in my naive version of processing (slide the exposure slider all the way over, fiddle with the contrast slider, and back off when it looks solarized).
File my sunspot images under Work In Progress.
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