Spotless Sun - Deep Solar Minimum © John Chumack
Hi all,
I realized that I had not paid much attention to the Sun the last couple of years, due the the countless days of Blank Sun….sunspots are far and few between.
The last stretch went like 52 days straight no spots, prior to that stretch we went 72 days no sunspots……and so on…We are well into cycle 24, but very few spots have appeared since the start of the new solar cycle.
Finally I had some time at lunch today to dust off my 6″ Cave reflector & solar Filter…to try to take a quick shot of the blank sun for 2009.
It is a 1/2000 of a second exposure with a Canon Rebel XSi @ ISO 400.
It came out okay, even showing some nice limb darkening.
Best Regards,
John Chumack
www.galacticimages.com