I had my first try photographing the sun yesterday with a new solar filter on my telescope. So much fun to see the incredible detail of the sunspots. To put things in perspective, our planet Earth would easily fit inside the single sunspot just right off the center of the sun.
Photo Details
February 15, 2014
Orion 8" Astrograph on VX Mount
Nikon D3100 Camera - ISO 400
Orion Solar Filter
Exposure time = 1/2500 seconds (photo 1 = 500 exposures; photo 2 = 300 exposures)
Image Stacking in Registax6
Image Processing in PhotoShop
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