Fireball
The Sun at 5:39 a.m. - June 6, 2023
My dear Flickr friends, I present to you the intense fireball we call our sun, rising over the mists of the Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin.
I arrived before dawn and had discovered a pair of Trumpeter swans feeding in a canal close to the path I was walking. Intent on capturing these beautiful birds in the early morning light, I hadn't noticed the sunrise.
Two other factors contributed to my not noticing the sun-- a heavy mist that shrouded it, as well as the particulates in the air due to the raging Canadian wildfires.
When I finally looked up into the sky, this is the scene that I witnessed! An orange ball surrounded by hazy and colorful purples and blues... This was 26 minutes after sunrise.
Captured at a focal length of 750mm, then generously cropped, the sun appears in all its glory, and it is displaying six or seven clearly visible sunspots on its surface.
The average sunspot is about the diameter of our earth, so about 8,000 miles across. The largest sunspot ever recorded was almost 89,000 miles across.
Enjoy this celestial wonder, and have a great weekend, everyone!
Fireball
The Sun at 5:39 a.m. - June 6, 2023
My dear Flickr friends, I present to you the intense fireball we call our sun, rising over the mists of the Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin.
I arrived before dawn and had discovered a pair of Trumpeter swans feeding in a canal close to the path I was walking. Intent on capturing these beautiful birds in the early morning light, I hadn't noticed the sunrise.
Two other factors contributed to my not noticing the sun-- a heavy mist that shrouded it, as well as the particulates in the air due to the raging Canadian wildfires.
When I finally looked up into the sky, this is the scene that I witnessed! An orange ball surrounded by hazy and colorful purples and blues... This was 26 minutes after sunrise.
Captured at a focal length of 750mm, then generously cropped, the sun appears in all its glory, and it is displaying six or seven clearly visible sunspots on its surface.
The average sunspot is about the diameter of our earth, so about 8,000 miles across. The largest sunspot ever recorded was almost 89,000 miles across.
Enjoy this celestial wonder, and have a great weekend, everyone!