JeffPo's Solar Page
Last update: 11/12/03
Here's
an image of the sun on 10/24/03 (at MASP 2003), showing a couple of massive
sunspots. Image is an afocal shot using my Nikon 995 camera, a 40mm
lens, on my 8" SCT with a full aperture Orion solar filter (borrowed from
a club member). The sunspots were so huge that you could just hold
up the filter and easily see the sunspots without any magnification at all.
Here's a sunspot
I captured using my Nikon 995 digital camera afocally on my 80mm refractor
(11/23/02).
Here's another,
slightly smaller sunspot I captured using my Nikon 995 digital camera afocally
on my 80mm refractor (11/23/02).
This is a partial solar eclipse from October 3, 1986. It
was taken with a 200mm zoom lens from Raleigh, North Carolina.
This is a partial solar eclipse from May 10, 1994. It
was taken with a 200mm zoom lens from Redmond, Washington. From some
parts of the country, like El Paso, Texas, it was an annular eclipse.
This is a partial solar eclipse from February 26,
1998. It was taken with a 200mm zoom lens from Cary, North Carolina.
It was a total eclipse for those down in the Carribean. A friend
held a piece of #14 welder's glass in front of my lens while I snapped the
picture.
Sunspot
groupings on Nov. 15, 1999. Image taken via afocal method on my 80mm
refractor.
Here
you can just barely make out the disk of Mercury, as it was making a transit
on Nov. 15, 1999. Image taken via afocal method on my 80mm refractor.