~ Sunspot AR2109 Lights Up ~
Taken by Noeleen Lowndes on July 11, 2014 @
Gold Coast Queensland Australia
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Date Taken: 2014:07:11 17:12:22
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I had just finished taking some images of the Sun and was about to power down the mount when I decided to have another look through the eyepiece. All of a sudden the whole area around the large sunspot AR2109 lit up…I rushed to put the camera back onto the solar scope to capture the moment.
It only lasted a couple of minutes from 10.43am to 10.50am AEST, and then it died back down…it was all very exciting! I think I may have just witnessed my first direct view of a solar flare ☺
My images were taken with a Lunt 80mm solar telescope and Canon 7D camera with a 2x Barlow lens. I used the Monochrome picture style setting on the camera for the black and white image to try and bring out the bright light that was around the sunspot.
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