February 9, 2009 4:30pm PST
Victoria, BC


It’s rare but not unheard of in February – the Sun was out this afternoon, and it was clear of clouds for a couple of hours. I took advantage and setup my new Lunt solar telescope on the back deck around 4:30pm and was rewarded with some quite spectacular solar flares. Having setup for a quick view, I didn’t have the scope setup on a tracking mount, so I just handheld my point-and-shoot digital camera to the eyepiece and had a go.

Photo taken a-focally thru 24mm Panoptic, Lunt LS-60T double stacked solar telescope using an Olympus Stylus 770SW point-and-shoot digital camera.

Moderate contrast stretching and saturation enhancement done using ACDSee Pro 2