I was chuffed to realise my image of the Sun, taken when we had all that smoke about, shows some sunspots.
Sunset, 18 September 2011 from Chinderah NSW.
http://ih0.redbubble.net/work.781060...h-sunspots.jpg
The dots (2 just right of centre and one at the bottom just right of centre) are sunspots. I would not have realised but RedBubble member Owed to Nature also put up an image with info about the sunspots - his is
here.
The Watchers had the following to say about them
_Sunspots 1164 and 1166 are so large, people are noticing them at sunrise and sunset when the sun is dimmed by clouds and haze. The dark cores of these regions are many times wider than Earth, so they are conspicuous even from a distance of 93 million miles. Readers who monitor the spots using properly-filtered backyard telescopes are likely to see flares in action; sunspot 1164 in particular has a delta-class magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class eruptions._
So there you go - I am very chuffed to have photographed a sunspot! Off to look at my other images of the sun from that period.
Lumix FZ35
