The Sun 25_01_2025

 

The full Solar Disc in the morning  of 25_01_2025 imaged in white light (added false colour). Captured with a QHY5iii462c planetary video camera with double stacked pass and red light filters. Telescope used and Altair Astro 66mm ED refractor on a Star Adventurer EQ mount. Image Credit: Kurt Thrust

" Our nearest star is a rotating ball of gas, which  beautifully demonstrates the principle of  'conservation of angular momentum'. Unfortunately for us the rotation has temporarily taken the larger sunspots away from us. The image however does show some spots and obvious faculae associated with sunspot groups towards the left hand limb. We processed the image to emphasise the many solar convection cells which show as changes in albedo in  the solar photosphere and give, the Sun as imaged, an 'orange peel ' texture'. Many of these cells are as big as the whole Earth!" - Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.