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Photographer:

Ken Spencer

Location of Photo:

Sea Cliff, New York

Date/Time of photo:

May 10, 2012, 2:48 PM

Equipment:

106mm f/6.7 Astro Tech refractor on a Televue Gibraltar mount, and 2X Barlow, with a Nikon D-300 camera. Baader film solar filter in front of objective.

Description:

I went out to photograph the large sunspot reported on the sun's face today, using white light. After I was done, I wondered how big the sunspot was - was it as large as the Earth? So I went back in my files and found an image I made of the 2004 Transit of Venus. I scaled both images for the same diameter of the Sun's disk, and put them side by side.

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