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Taken on Saturday with my solar scope - not brilliant but imaging through this scope is a complete nightmare - infact some think it was desined to stop people imaging through it.
This was present Saturday morning and is the first sign of the Sun waking up after a looong sleep. It is huge!!!! and is easily 20 times bigger than the earth - and thats just the bit you can see - his is looping around from the other side!
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...oc/sunreg4.jpg
Hey Chris, can't see it here at work, but will check it out when I get home. Stinking websense!
How do you get those pictures because Patrick Moore told me never to look at the sun through a telescope. :unsure:
What does a solar flare do to our weather? I know it will affect it somehow.
Staggering image! I can't grasp the scale it's just mind blowing
I thought so too although I think I remember him showing us how to see flares like this using some card onceQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawn
The sizing is truly mindblowing. 20 times bigger than the Earth? Wow!
so hard to comprehend the scale
Is there anyway to see this kind of thing without all the expensive kit?
No sorry cosmicray unless you pop along to a local astronomy club and I'm sure they will have a solar telescope , which is what you need to observe the sun. As said above NEVER look at the sun even with the naked eye - with a telescope you will cause blindness instantly - these solar telescopes are highly sophisticated bits of kit - they used to sell for thousands but this one is sold for about £300 and shows just the hydrogen -alpha emission from the sun - focussing the webcam to is is a total nightmare and this was the best I got even after about 20minutes of fiddling - also it was changing so much it was hard to pin down