Lukey's Astrophotography
This morning, the sun was shining brightly and the sky was cloudless with good visibility so I asked Lukey if he wanted to look at the sun for a little while. After we set up the telescope and all the associated gear for solar astronomy, we found the sun in the telescope. We talked a little bit about sunspots, what they are and why there are none visible today. I explained that we're in the middle of the 11 year solar cycle which is the long period of relatively little activity on the sun. Since there wasn't much to look at and discuss, we then we swapped out the eyepiece for one of my cameras so Lukey could shoot a few photos... Lukey picked up the remote shutter release and shot his first astrophotography images... He shot just two photos but they came out very nicely! They were both the same so I'm only sharing one of them here. The seeing was good this particular morning so we were able to capture some faint hints of the convection cells bubbling to the surface