Sunspot

[Daniel294]

Tonight I stared at the sun for a little bit, so to speak. I took this photo of a very large active sunspot, which has been causing northern lights events. The sunspot is over 150000km long, which is more than 11 Earths laid end-to-end.


Sunspot by D. Brim, on Flickr

[Windwatcher]

Nice!

[Joe-Nathan]

There is a pretty good continuing news stories over at

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[nightrider]

Nice picture. How did you take it?

[Joe-Nathan]

Here is a link to a gallery of Northern Lights the current solar activity is throwing our way:

http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/g...vc8s9g511ffia2

[Daniel294]

Nice picture. How did you take it?

I aimed my camera at the sun. I did need to put on a ND filter (reduces the amount of light the camera takes in), but if you take the picture closer to sunset you could probably do without that, even.

[Daniel294]

Here is a link to a gallery of Northern Lights the current solar activity is throwing our way:

http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/g...vc8s9g511ffia2

Yeah, I was bummed that this happened on a Monday night. If it was a Saturday, I would have dashed up into Canada as far as I could drive after work on Friday. It would have put me right under the activity.

[satx_pilot]

Great Picture Daniel!

[Joe-Nathan]

FROM SPACE WX: http://www.spaceweather.com/
Check out this newly discovered Comet (9/30/11) impact into the sun and the possible connected CME:





WAY COOL!!!

[satx_pilot]

Very cool! It ate and burped :)