Broadband sun @AZASTROGUY

Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 9 minutes ago

The Sun on Nov 25, 2025. We see a full disk image of the Sun in broadband. The light areas near the limb are faculae, hotter spots on the Sun. Then we zoom in on a sunspot group, and identify the parts of the sunspots. The umbra in these sunspots are about the size of the Earth. Pores are 'pre-sunspots' that may develop into sunspots or be reabsorbed into the Sun. Granules are hot upwellings of plasma about the size of Texas that last about 15 minutes.

I took this with my TEC160FL refractor and a Lunt herschel wedge. You can turn your refractor into a solar observing telescope like this with a Lunt herschel wedge that can be obtained here:

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Links Sun and Seeing conditions:

SDO: sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data
Astrospheric: astrospheric.com
Meteoblue seeing: https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/... Goodtostargaze: goodtostargaze.com
Clearskyscharts: cleardarksky.com/csk

$Broadband sun The Sun on Nov 25, 2025. We see a full disk image of the Sun in broadband. The light areas near the limb are faculae, hotter spots on the Sun. Then we zoom in on a sunspot group, and identify the parts of the sunspots. The umbra in these sunspots are about the size of the Earth. Pores are pre-sunspots that may develop into sunspots or be reabsorbed into the Sun. Granules are hot upwellings of plasma about the size of Texas that last about 15 minutes. I took this with my TEC160FL refractor and a Lunt herschel wedge. You can turn your refractor into a solar observing telescope like this with a Lunt herschel wedge that can be obtained here: https://luntsolarsystems.com/?rfsn=8727310.7de84a This is a referral link. You pay no more for using this link but I may earn a small commission. Thank you. #luntsolarsystems #telescope #solar #solarimaging #astrophotography #space #sun #star #astronomy I put a lot of work into these tutorials. It really helps if you subscribe to my channel. Thanks. Links Sun and Seeing conditions: SDO: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ Astrospheric: https://www.astrospheric.com/ Meteoblue seeing: https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/... Goodtostargaze: https://www.goodtostargaze.com/ Clearskyscharts: https://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/$

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