Partial Solar Eclipse

solar eclipse

My studio window faces south-east so I was in an ideal position to set up my telescope to project the solar disc during a partial solar eclipse which reached its maximum at about 11 o’clock this morning, as the Moon passed in front of the Sun.

There was a single sunspot towards the ‘south-west’ limb of the sun.

Although I’ve messed about with these images in Photoshop and Lightroom, I think that some of the mottling in this close-up of the projected image – for instance the halo around the sunspot – are the actual granules of convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere.