Three Visible Sunspots
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on September 11, 2015 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
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Camera Used: Panasonic DMC-TZ60
Exposure Time: 10/20000
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 160
Date Taken: 2015:09:11 20:45:21
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Details:
As the sun set through thick smoke haze caused by burning bush fires, its brightness was reduced sufficiently to reveal three easily visible sunspots at 15.24 UT. These must have enlarged very rapidly as the Spaceweather Daily Sun for 11 Sep 2015 shows only three small ones (2411, 2412 and 2414), none of which posed a threat for strong flares. In the first picture taken at x60 Zoom magnification, there are two large and one smaller sunspots. The second picture taken a few minutes earlier shows the distant sun setting over a rather surreal haze blanketed landscape to the west of Mutare. The camera used was a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in Sunset auto mode.
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