Sun Shot

Here is a shot I took today of the sun through a Meade ETX-70AT with a Seymour Solar Filter mounted for protection. The Meade telescope has a focal length of a 350mm f/4.0 lens. I used a GH-2 and cropped the picture.

The sun with a number of sunspots visible

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Same picture as above except converted to B&W

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A shot of the solar filter

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Ya I would also love to get a Hydrogen Alpha filter too but like you say, major $$$.

 

This was shot at ISO 160 and underexposed by two stops. I also took another shot where the exposure was correct but in Lightroom I had to turn down the exposure by about 2.5 stops in order to get it to the point of being able to see the sunspots.

 

Another one from yesterday but I used eyepiece projection this time instead. This used the burst mode in the GH-2 to get about 30 frames and combined them using RegiStax.

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