Re: Unusual Digital Photo of the sun

"aaa" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Earlier this year I was on holiday with my family in the UK.
> My son took the photos at the links below.
> They are completely unretouched or manipulated in any way.
> We are intrigued by the formations round the sun.
> You can see from the rest of the pic that the sun is probably shining
though
> light cloud.
> Are the fuzzy prominence-like features really just earth cloud? Or has my
> son's cheap digital camera really captured something solar?
>
> Also, he took 3 quick pictures in the space of about a minute. I took the
> sun part of each and made an animated gif to see if there was any motion.
> A link to that gif is here
> www.pobox791.co.nz/sun/sun.gif
>
> Is it just earth clouds passing by? The photos were taken under cloudy &
> windy conditions.
>


Even in the UK, pointing a camera at the Sun can be dangerous. I'm
surprised it still works. I'm pretty sure that what you are seeing is a
cloud formation in line with the Sun.

> The 3 pics can be found at
> www.pobox791.co.nz/sun/IMG00009.JPG (Hi res - 400k approx)
> www.pobox791.co.nz/sun/RIMG00009.JPG (Lo res 30k approx)
> www.pobox791.co.nz/sun/IMG00010.JPG (Hi res)
> www.pobox791.co.nz/sun/RIMG00010.JPG (Lo res)
> www.pobox791.co.nz/sun/IMG00011.JPG (Hi res)
> www.pobox791.co.nz/sun/RIMG00011.JPG (Lo res)
> www.pobox791.co.nz/sun/sun.gif
>
>



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