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Joel Weatherly
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
12/25/2019
01:59 pm

Equipment Details:

Celestron PowerSeeker 80AZS telescope, filtered with a custom built Baader AstroSolar Photo Film filter, imaged with a Canon 5Ds.

Post-processing Details:

Adjustments to contrast and clarity before adding false colour in Affinity Photo.

Image Details:

The Sun has been spotless for 277 days this year, so I was quite excited to see two new-cycle sunspots today. Seeing wasn't great, but it was exciting to see some harbingers of the upcoming solar cycle 25.