I was able to take a photo of the large sunspots that made the news these days:

https://www.uninformativ.de/pics/photo/astro/2024-05-11–IMG_7512-sun-AR3664.jpg

It’s not a super high quality shot, my scope isn’t good enough for that. Still cool to see. 😎

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wow! 🤩 That is impressive! 👌 Do you mind sharing how you went about doing this? 🙏

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks 😅

This is my setup, I think I posted these before:

It’s a Celestron Ultima 100 (originally bought for bird watching, not a telescope) with a special adapter so that I can mount my Canon EOS 600D directly. The sun filter is just a generic filter for 100mm scopes. The tripod isn’t very good and actually rather annoying. 😂

It’s not a very complicated setup. 🤔 Being able to mount the camera directly is crucial.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh that’s hilarious 😆 I have the exact same setup (minus any filters, I only have those for my Celestron NextStar 4SE telescope) 🔭

@prologic@twtxt.net Right! I think I remember 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah I’ll see if I can get back into this, everytime I see you post stuff like this it makes me want to go out again 🤣 Bit hard for a blind guy to do it all, but still I try 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net That must be hard indeed. 🤔 Are the kids old enough to be interested in this kind of stuff? (Are kids in generall still interested in this? 😂)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think my daughter might be finally 🤔 She’s 9 now and getting into table tennis 🏓 whoot whoot! 🥳 So… Maybe…