~ Egg Shape Sun ~
Taken by Noeleen Lowndes on September 10, 2021 @
Leyburn Qld Australia
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 70D
Exposure Time: 1/320
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 200
Date Taken: 2021:09:20 16:09:08
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I was out in the country at my Stardust Observatory and even though it was a lovely clear sky all around me, when I went to take a photo of the sunset there was this huge smoky band on the western horizon from a large bushfire. Within minutes the Sun was setting into the thick fiery atmosphere and being pulled into an egg shape!
I had to quickly take the solar filter off the lens to capture the Sun as it was disappearing into the thick smog; it went this amazing bright pink colour before it completely disappeared…it was very exciting. You can also just make out those two large sunspot groups AR2866 & AR2868 on the surface.
I’ve also included an image that I took of these two large active sunspots on the Sun earlier in the afternoon; it’s so thrilling to see how active the Sun’s becoming ☺ ☺ ☺
Images were taken on my last new moon weekend, with a Canon 70D camera & Canon 100-400mm lens with 2x teleconverter = 1280mm focal length with solar filter taken off the lens, the thick smoke acted as filter. (This is the real hot pink colour of the Sun with no processing)
The white light image was taken with the same setup but with a solar filter attached…. The exposure was 1/500th second and ISO100, 20 images were stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PSCS4.
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