Tuesday 7 December 2010

Return to the Sun

With a few rare sightings of the Sun lately, I decided to try and image the large sunspot AR 1131.  Separated by 2 days, the images clearly show the Sun's rotation (synodic period is a little over 26 days). One day I'll capture daily images to create a time lapse movie, but sadly not much chance of that at this time of year!
Images were colourised in CS3 but I still can't decide what hue and saturation looks most pleasing to the eye.

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