[Paul Haese]

Did some pre solar imaging for the transit today and after doing the disk I thought I would do some ultra high res. I have not done this for quite a few years now. This image is taken with a 5x powermate. Seeing was pretty reasonable and the best I have seen for solar work in 4 years. I hope that bodes well for the Venus transit.

The image below shows the entire sunspot with all its magnetic field lines. I saw several flares during imaging, but most of those were likely to be a low M class.

Was happy to get some nice chicken skin in the basin of the spot.

Taken with the DMK41 (image reduced in size) and Solarmax 60 0.5A

edit: incidently this spot is about 5 times the size of earth.

Further edit: I have replaced the image with a smoother one and an image with the 3x barlow.