This is a superb photo, one that I greatly admire!

Well done.

signed,
Eric Trump

Mama might've tried. Daddy always lied.

... not a miracle maker, he won't be held responsible.

Of course, they don't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage, but that it should be hauled away as garbage.

Great photos!

Thanks!

You're right. It IS a goofy smiley on the face of the sun. Kinda off-center. Maybe the sun had a sheepish rendezvous with a passing comet and got found out?

I took a shot of Betelgeuse last night. It's about 700 times bigger than our sun.

What do Captain Kirk and toilet paper have in common?

I LOVE that joke!

I first heard it back in the '70s.

... I thought I felt something.

Nicely done!

Did you use a solar eclipse filter?

Yes. I ordered it to use on April 8 and have been having fun with it since it arrived last Thursday.

They're a lot of fun.

.,.looks like the one my doctor gave me after my colonoscopy 😁

Did you sue for malpractice?

Wow.

But all joking aside, it IS a really remarkable photo.

All the other regions have from 2 to 5 spots. A literal hot mess!

Some communications disturbance is likely beginning anytime from late Sunday 24th to early Monday 25th EST.

I was hoping we might see an aurora here in South Central PA but it doesn't look likely tonight.

Fantastic picture btw, thanks for sharing !

( Not a good time to be at The Space Station !! )

Link to tweet

And thanks for the link as well. I was hoping we might see an aurora here in South Central PA, but it doesn't look likely tonight.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1036129000

I took some pics today, but they weren't very good because of scattered light clouds. However, I got good enough images to compare the spots to yesterday, and it occurred to me that I could use them to estimate the sun's rotational period. I took the pixel width of the sun along the line the spots traveled as a diameter to estimate a circumference. I then measured the pixel distance the spots traveled and added 1/365th of the circumference to account for the Earth's movement in its orbit, then divided that into the presumed circumference. I got about 27 days. I then looked up the actual answer, and it turns out that since the sun is a ball of gas, the gas at the equator rotates faster than the gas near the poles. At the equator, it's 25 days, tapering off to over 30 days near the poles. The big spots appear to be somewhat south of the equator (we're seeing more of the south pole this time of year), so I'm pretty happy with my estimate.