Nice setups, well done! There are actually quite a few sunspots on the disk at the moment, more than I've seen for a while, but all are fairly small. Not as active as the last solar max, that's for sure. I just came in from testing my setup for tomorrow morning (5" reflector, projection onto white card), and could see all the groups and most of the individual spots on the image from
SOHO, plus some of the white faculae near one edge of the Sun. It should make for some really nice images/views for those lucky enough to see the eclipse tomorrow!
If I could offer some small advice to Stefan (though my photography skills are somewhat limited): It looks as though the last image you posted is possibly not quite focused sharply or is maybe (??, probably not) overexposed? I have a similar camera/lens, and would hope you could get some crisp images, so long as the filter is not blurring the image. I certainly appreciate it's not always easy to achieve a sharp focus on a tricky target like this! With luck, it may be possible for you to clearly image those sunspots on the Sun just now. If it's as clear where you are as it is here in the eastern suburbs, and of course if you haven't already done so (you probably have), then have a good try out of different focus points and exposure settings (manual exposure/aperture or +/- stops) to see what might work best tomorrow!
Best of luck, and of course clear skies
