Big Yawn
Striations
Sunset over Rome
Sunset over Rome
Monument Vittorio Emmanuele
Rome
Side by side comparison of my white light photograph of the Sun as seen from Sydney on 2013-05-18 with an intensitygram from the HMI instrument of the NASA SDO satellite.

Sony A100 DSLR with Sony 500/8 AF Reflex, 1/1000 s, f/8, ISO 100.  The 11 sharpest photos were chosen from a total of 40, then aligned and stacked using custom Python software.
Big Yawn
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See photo in original gallery.