Here Comes The Sun!

I decided to take some Sun/solar pictures this morning as I have some time to spare and to make up for the disappointing lack of night gazing lately either due to weather constrains or my own laziness... :P

These shots were taken throught the scope's eyepiece using my HP r707 digicam. The telescope was set up with a Kendrick-CH solar filter at the main objective lens. It is a simple exercise of using the simplest camera to capture the brightest object in our skies without burning your eyes! ;-) But, boy, was it hot and sweaty getting all the equipment under the Sun, to align the scope properly to get the sight of this hot star of our Solar System!

If you scan carefully, you may just see the faint sunspot on the last picture at the northern right of the Sun. Look again, more carefully, you may just get another surprising look of the hot gases on the roiling surface of the Sun... ;-)