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Community photo entitled Sunspots by David Hoskin on 08/08/2024 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sunspots

On 08/08/2024 11:10 am by David Hoskin| Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Our nearest star, photographed this morning using a white light filter, shows several sunspot groups, 3 of which have the potential to unleash X-class solar flares. The largest of these is AR3780, shown on the right.

Celestron Omni XLT 150 with Baader filter, ZWO ASI533MC Pro camera, SkyWatcher EQ6R mount

AutoStakkert was used to stack 105 (solar disk) or 300 (AR3780 close-up) frames of SER video, additional post-processing with Photoshop and MS Photo.