Cracking Sunspots

Some of the best sunspots of the new solar cycle so far, taken this morning, 31st July.

Imaged through my normal set-up of D300, 420mm telephoto (300 + 1.4 TC) and Baader solar film. 20 images stacked in Registax and colourized in Photoshop CS3.

Forgot to label the image whilst processing, so - the 3 main spot groups (from bottom to top) are active regions AR1263, 1261 and AR1260. AR1265 is the small single spot to the upper right of AR1260.



AR1263, 1261, 1260 (bottom to top)