One of my photos of the sun from two days ago. I decided to feature this image by itself due to the magnificent solar flares, visible in the sun's corona near the bottom left and about a third the way up from the bottom right. I took this particular image as the "diamond ring" (Baily's Beads) was appearing after complete obscuration of the sun. Given the massive size of our sun, I would imagine that the largest of the three flares is probably bigger than our entire planet. What an amazing sight!
I made this photograph in Summerside on Prince Edward Island, Canada. I used my eleven year old Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 mounted to a sturdy tripod. The raw image was processed in DxO PhotoLab 6.x. For this photo, I selected an aperture of f/9.0 and a shutter speed of 1/2000th at ISO 200. I removed my solar filter briefly during the period of complete occultation when just the corona was visible.
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