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Sunspots

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The sun has sunspots. They change over time. They act as a fingerprint that identifies the sun uniquely for every day.

This page is a gallery of sun photos taken with a solar filter so you can see the sunspots.

Instructions

If you want to submit your own email sun@mctoon.net Please include the following detail with your submission:

1. Clearly visible sunspots

2. Date

3. Time with time zone

4. Lat/Long

5. Camera and lens type (There are no bonus points for using a P900)

6. Image Source/Credit. Please indicate if you want to be credited and how. We do not wish to dox anyone but we do want to appropriately give credit where it is due.

Gallery

Source/Credit Dora
Date 2024-12-07
Time 09:56
Timezone UTC
Longitude 5.4E
Latitude 51.4N
Camera ZWO ASI 120MM
Lens Skywatcher Guidescope Evoguide 50 ED + IR passthrough filter
Source/Credit Peter Markley
Date 2024-12-11
Time 20:13
Timezone UTC
Longitude 84.1W
Latitude 31.7N
Target azimuth 220° (SW)
Target elevation 22.7°
Camera Canon EOS 2000D
Lens Takumar Bayonet 1:25 135mm (~5° vert. FOV)