We’ve had some pretty amazing sunsets recently and the sun has been beautiful shades of orange.

“My wife noticed how orange the sky was the other day (Thursday, 6 August), so we headed up to Sunset Hill Park to watch the sunset,” a MyBallard reader emails us. “As the sun sank lower, she noticed that she could see a sunspot through her binoculars. And when I processed the photo in Lightroom, I could see another one.”

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“One is about 11 o’clock, near the left rim, in the bright band. The other is a little below the equator, about 1/3 of the way in from the right rim,” he writes. The photos were taken with a Nikon D300: ISO 200, f/5.6, 200mm, 1/320.