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Thanks to a heads-up post from @appagalcrochet, I hauled out my telescope this morning to check out newly-formed sunspot region 4366 — an area ten times wider than the Earth! It’s been emitting powerful X-class solar flares, which reportedly triggered radio blackouts across the South Pacific. The fact that life is able to exist at all on our tiny orb amid such unimaginably powerful cosmic forces continues to amaze me.

#photography #astrophotography #sun #sunspots #solarflare

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This was a picture created using a Dob10 telescope and a 17.3 mm lens with a white light filter. The only changes made were reducing brightness of the shot and increasing shadow using my camera phones settings. I deleted the original to make room for moon shots but here is unprocessed/processed comparison from my other phone from a few weeks ago.

youtube.com/shorts/5pQ6WFmzylM…

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