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Community photo entitled  by David Hoskin on 05/21/2022 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

On 05/21/2022 10:30 am by David Hoskin | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Large sunspot complex AR3014 (centre) imaged this morning in hydrogen alpha. According to SpaceWeather.com, this is one of the biggest sunspots in years, stretching more than 125,000 km from end to end. AR3017 and AR3015 are below and to the left and right of AR3014.

Lunt 40mm solar telescope, ZWO ASI290MM camera with 2.5x Barlow, SkyWatcher EQ6R mount.

AutoStakkert (stacking), IMPPG (sharpening), Photoshop (levels, contrast and false color) and PhotoScape X (final tweaking).