Today, the THICK dust cloud that has descended upon Brisbane presented me with a very nice opportunity.. I went outside to have a coffee and a smoke, looked over to the west and saw the sun, its brightness was severely diminished by the dust in the air/atmosphere, and I was able to view it straight on without needing to squint... After looking at it for a moment as it sank into my neighbours banana tree, I thought to myself.. That would make a nice photo... I ran inside, grabbed the D200 and quickly snapped on my 80-400mm lens, zoomed it up to 400mm and took a few snaps.. I was happy looking at them on the cameras LCD, but when I opened them up on the PC and realised I'd also captured 3 sun spots.. Well.. needless to say I was incredibly happy..
Here is the full frame, and a 100% crop of the sun, including 3 sunspots..
Alex.