That's very impressive. It was a good idea to take it at night - otherwise it would have been overexposed.
B > On 14 Apr 2016, at 22:08, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > > You may have heard of the ginormous sunspot now taking center stage on > our local star. I had to attempt it, so snagged this photo of > ginormous Sunspot AR2529 during my afternoon work break. The inset is > at 100% and appears to be a "heart" at it's core. Taken with a Pentax > K-3 II at 1600 ISO with home made AstroSolar filter. Sigma EX 50-500mm > f4-6.3 DG with a Pentax-F 1.7x teleconverter. > > I believe the Sigma was at 500mm plus the 1.7x. This is a single image > (taken from the JPEG) with no stacking or sharpening - only color > correction. (My filter makes everything look violet). > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/26365856941/ > > -- > “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” > ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

