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Community photo entitled  by William Leveson-Gower on 10/14/2023 at Near Palomar Mountain, San Diego, CA

On 10/14/2023 08:41 am by William Leveson-Gower | Website | Near Palomar Mountain, San Diego, CA

This is one of 983 images taken, what I love about this one is to watch the movement of the moon's shadow about to cover the sunspots. I was not expecting this setup to capture that much of the sun's surface detail.

Mount: iOptron Skytracker
Camera: Nikon Coolpix P1000 with NiSi Camera&Cinema Filter with a LEE Super stopper filter (15 stop).
Camera settings: f/5.6, 1/1000 sec, ISO-100, 0 step, focal length 252 mm (35 mm focal length 1400)

Source image: 4608 x 3456 pixels
Lightroom: Tone curve and histogram adjusting, and cropping
Pixinsight: deconvolution