Sunset With 1164 & 1166

[martinastro]

Fantastic sunset this evening, vivid orange and red colours with sunspot groups 1164 and 1166 on view, the former was an easy naked eye object. These are at 400mm and cropped slightly.

[Conor McDonald]

Great shots man 

[markt]

Very nice!  

I got a close up of it as the sun was setting on wednesday:


AR11164 (large) by Mark Townley, on Flickr

And a full disk of it in Hydrogen Alpha light...


Ha Sun 02/03/11 DS40 f10.5 PL130M (big) by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Hope you don't mind me tagging these onto your post Martin - just seemed the most appropriate place to pop them...

Mark

[martinastro]

Thanks Conor and Mark 

Mark, no problem, great images by the way, love the Ha full disk shot. The sun is fast becoming an exciting star once again!

[Anton]

Excellent work both, I love that lens Martin.

[martinastro]

Thanks Anton

[JohnC]

Hoped to see the sunspots but no sun in Cornwall - excellent photos here.