Always Read the Label
From this image of the Sun I shot today (15th June 2025), it appears that someone didn’t read the label when choosing the SPF rating of their sunscreen. Look at all the sunspots. You’d think the primary source of radiation in our Solar System would know better than to go out without sunscreen on! Our nearest star is a candidate for some serious melanomas!
Joking aside, seeing so many sunspots is encouraging for those of us keen to see and photograph the Aurora Borealis or Aurora Australis. As a general rule, the more sunspots that are visible on the surface of the sun near Solar Maximum, the more solar flare energy is being released into space, which means more potential Aurora activity! Bring it on, I say.
I captured this image of the Sun using my DWARF 3 smart telescope, using its “Astro” function. In the Astro mode, the telescope takes twenty images of the Sun and stacks them for better image quality. Once I downloaded the stacked image to my computer, I upscaled it using the Topaz Photo AI plug-in for Adobe Lightroom.
Always Read the Label
From this image of the Sun I shot today (15th June 2025), it appears that someone didn’t read the label when choosing the SPF rating of their sunscreen. Look at all the sunspots. You’d think the primary source of radiation in our Solar System would know better than to go out without sunscreen on! Our nearest star is a candidate for some serious melanomas!
Joking aside, seeing so many sunspots is encouraging for those of us keen to see and photograph the Aurora Borealis or Aurora Australis. As a general rule, the more sunspots that are visible on the surface of the sun near Solar Maximum, the more solar flare energy is being released into space, which means more potential Aurora activity! Bring it on, I say.
I captured this image of the Sun using my DWARF 3 smart telescope, using its “Astro” function. In the Astro mode, the telescope takes twenty images of the Sun and stacks them for better image quality. Once I downloaded the stacked image to my computer, I upscaled it using the Topaz Photo AI plug-in for Adobe Lightroom.