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Community photo entitled  by Grace Wheeler on 01/19/2023 at Eureka, CA USA

On 01/19/2023 04:05 pm by Grace Wheeler| Eureka, CA USA

After two weeks of constant rainfall in northern California, we finally got a sunny day. I have been watching the sun on NISP ( https://nso.edu/telescopes/nisp/) and knew that there was quite a bit of solar activity, including AR 3190. Despite some breezy conditions and partly cloudy conditions, I manged to do two hours of decent imaging of the sun.
We are into the third year of Solar Cycle 25 and so far it has not disappointed.

Lunt 80tha double-stacked solar telescope on an Celestron Evolution mount. The sun was imaged with a ZWO 294 monochrome planetary camera.

About 1500 frames were stacked in Autostakkert and sharpened/inverted in IMPPG. Final tone adjusted was done in Photoshop.