Spotty Sunrise over Brisbane (featured on Spaceweather)

Hi all,

After taking some sunspot images yesterday afternoon, I was thinking that it would be nice to try and capture the spotty Sun at sunrise, and then I thought it would be even better if that sunrise was behind the city buildings... So after a bit of time studying Stellarium and looking at maps, and then a quick reconnaissance drive yesterday evening looking at possible locations, I settled on Green Hill Reservoir as a suitable location.

I got up there just as dawn started and took some panoramas of the city. Then, with the camera still in position on the tripod, I added a Baader solar filter and captured the rising sun with exposures every 3.5 minutes.

I managed to pick the location perfectly (with the Sun rising right in the middle of the city!), and the weather cooperated beautifully, so I'm pretty happy with the result!

I'm also happy because this image is featured on the front page of Spaceweather today (July 9, 2014) :

http://www.spaceweathe​r.com/

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/ofd7​tm

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/ofmS​az

awesome!! i saw that this morning, didn't know it was a potner's.

CONGRATS!!

doug waters wrote in post #17021126
awesome!! i saw that this morning, didn't know it was a potner's.

CONGRATS!!

Thanks very much Doug! It's nice to be featured on Spaceweather again.

Cheers,
Stephen

I follow spaceweather too.. Great great capture!

A wonderful image. And congrats on making it to the front page of Spaceweather!

That is extremely cool. Well done!

Very nicely done. Excellent series.

Love it! Very cool indeed!

Thanks very much Jim, Levina, Paul , Mark and Shuttercount!

Cheers,
Stephen

Congrats...

Merlin Driver wrote in post #17028762
Congrats...

Thanks!