Sun - 23rd March 2011

A while since I've taken any images of our nearest star so, blessed with some decent weather, I thought I'd capture a few images.
This shot is a 10 image stack taken with my trusty D300 and 420mm telephoto.

Active region 1175 is starting to creep behind the limb; no discernible sunspots are visible, but there is some nice faculae. Meanwhile, AR1176 is beginning to show itself on the opposite side of the disk, with some interesting spot development amidst the faculae. This group has the potential to grow into something quite large, so will be interesting to track it's progress as it crosses the solar disk. Hopefully we'll be granted a few days continued clear skies before the cloud rolls in.

23rd March. AR1175 & AR1176