Ballardite catches sunspots through camera lens

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.

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