Eerie Red Sun Through Clouds with Visible Sunspots

in astronomy •  7 years ago 

I know you're not supposed to look directly at the sun even through clouds, but it's so tempting when you step outside and see this eerie red sun glowing to the West through a layer of uniform clouds - especially when you've been seeing tweets all day about the huge active region (sun spots) on the face of the sun right now. What an easy opportunity to try to capture some sunspots and this weird red sun in a flat background of gray. I tried looking at it first with a pair of eclipse glasses, and couldn't see anything at all, so then I took a few sideways glances and set up my camera.

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Single frame Canon T5i 300mm, ISO 100, f/8, 1/500 sec
Image by Eric Teske (http://www.ericteske.com/) (CC BY-NC 3.0)

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