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Good morning all,
The Sun today Saturday 9/5/20 in the morning at 08:37 .
Let's see what can do with a small 40mm PST T5 single stack Solar Scope. Faint prominences on the limb, smooth granulations at 66X and here is the result.

Thanks for looking
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A beautiful sketch. Thanks for sharing!
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Now there's something I haven't seen in a while... the Sun :lol: That's really well done, Marios, thanks for posting that!

All the best,
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Hello Ruud and Mark, and Thank you for the friendly comments. - Thanks for the likes -

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Hi Marios. You did a great job with these solar prominences in your sketch using the 40mm PST scope. Thanks for sharing this with us Marios, and the best of regards.
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Thank you Marshall !
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Excellent sketches Marios 8-)
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Thank you Wayne.
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Beautiful sketch Mariosi! Funny, I was just thinking during the breakfast that I have not looked at the Sun in a while.
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Thank you . The Sun is in low activity these days and through 40mm pst is difficult!
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Awesome sketch!!

I thought that was a photo!!
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Thank you Jeff!
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Very nice!
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