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Full sun 2024-02-09 with large  "Martian Sunspot" #3576, KiwiAstro

Full sun 2024-02-09 with large "Martian Sunspot" #3576

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Full sun 2024-02-09 with large "Martian Sunspot" #3576

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Capture of full sun containing some major sunspots morning of 9th Feb 2024.    Termed the "Martian Sunspot", 3576 is a large enough to see from Mars which was picked up by the NASA Perserverance Rover.  End to end, the sunspot group stretches more than 150,000 km with at least 4 dark cores larger than Earth (https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=02&year=2024).

Warm filter applied in Photoshop for colour on this HA stacked image.

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Full sun 2024-02-09 with large  "Martian Sunspot" #3576, KiwiAstro