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And the #Bochum #sunset show goes on ... today the #sunspot group (1)4087 was very prominent, and there was #AtmosphericalOptics galore: sometimes it stretched or duplicated the spot vertically while at other times a #GreenSegment 'lifted off' from the Sun's upper limb. More pictures in facebook.com/groups/7888065611 and even more in facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/p

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The #sunspot group (1)4087 - the black dot above the trees - during today's #Bochum #sunset ... it was clearer than yesterday so even at the very shortest possible exposure, 1/16,000 sec at f/8 and ISO 100, the Sun was still significantly overexposed. Meanwhile the sunspot itself is taking a nap and produced only an M and a few C flares today but its magnetic structure allegedly keeps having a potential for more.

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Cloud gap fun with the big #sunspot group AR (1)4079 - now near the central meridian - today (4 May 2025) in Bochum, Germany: through eclipse glasses in the late afternoon ... and during a super-bright sunset. Rain had cleared the atmosphere so much that in the clear segments even at sunset 1/16'000 second at f/8 and ISO 100 still delivered an overexposed picture! The double umbra is still visible, however, as were nice green effects earlier at the upper rim: more pictures in facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/p

The big #sunspot group (1)4079 - and the smaller (1)4076 - this afternoon, shot with a Panasonic Lumic DMC-FZ300 at maximum digital zoom; I think the resolution is slightly higher than when using maximum optical zoom and cropping. The filter were aluminized mylar eclipse glasses. Was also easy to see naked-eye through black polymer eclipse glasses, quite unusual for a group still so close to the limb!

Three images of the solar disk, acquired using three different filters: O-III, Ca-K and the solar ERF, mainly used with the H-Alpha Quark.

The idea was to compare the results with the simple white light (just the Herschel wedge) and the O-III filter and check for improvements in contrast and details of sunspots and faculae.

In addition, an image of the central area of the solar disk, with some of the main active regions on those days.

Follow the link below to see the original mono images in full resolution and read their technical details.

localvoid.net/2025/04/20/solar

#astronomy #astrophotography #sun #ca-k #sunspot