Sunspot photo

Hiya,

I managed to finally get sunshine today, so I aimed the camera at the sun with a solar filter, and I think I captured Sunspot 2297.

What kind of solar filter ?

I was going to post to a link to where I got it from, but Amazon don't seem to have it any more. It makes the sun orange colour, but it wasn't Thousand Oaks. It was a non-name make.

good start

not sure if it was the camera out of focus or if the filter you used caused the blurriness ?
how were you doing focusing .... it would need to be manual .... auto isn't likely to work


Dave

Good start but your focus is way off. Or you have a really bad filter. I'm putting my money on focus though.

Nice start. As the others said...focus is critical. Keep trying and posting.

Not really sure about Focus or optics in combination with the filter to be blamed but yes, Great job and Way to Go.

One thing I have found out from imaging the sun is it really is very hard to get good focus and almost impossible to get perfect focus . All factors have to be considered with the filter first and the user second . When I focus I concentrate on any sunspots and the sun edges . That is really the only way to focus . If there is no sunspots the edges are the only thing that helps with focus .