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At 2000mm, 3.5 km away.


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Like 1 Like 1 Amazing as usual. You have found a nice niche! This one is really special.


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Like Dog


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Great catch!


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Like 1 Like 1 Like 1 just WOW!!


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CarbonR wrote:

At 2000mm, 3.5 km away.


CRAZY image ... !!! Not only the jogger, but also the sunspots are invredibly well captured !!

What lens ...?

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BTW what happened to the sunspots on the right side of the sun? Hidden behind clouds? Or "deleted" by an "intelligent" image processing software??

See here NASA image from Sept 29, 2025:
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/synoptic/sunspots_earth/sunspots_512_20250929.jpg

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Lens is the Tele-Takumar 1000/8 with Kenko x2 extender Wink

For the sunspots, that is not the first time that I do not see all sunspots that I should. Possible explanations for me :
- Sometimes they can be behing objects
- Sometimes they can be just "behind" the sun
- My technique is not exactly similar to "common" material/technique used specificly to monitor sunspots, so maybe I am not able to see all of them

What I am sure : the only intelligent (or so) "thing" used is between the keyboard and the chair. I almost everytime have reference pictures of the full sun minutes before the photo to check what is sunspots and what is dust, and I manually remove any dust/oil particles on the photo on Gimp.


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Some seconds after the jogger :



After some investigation, this is RYR7415 : https://www.flightradar24.com/2025-09-29/17:14/20x/RYR7415/3c6ef638
Everything is linked : right direction at this time, right altitude vs distance (200 kilometers), cohernt size compared to the sun.


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Nice work sleuthing the aircraft! Not to mention the photograph itself is quite unique. Very nice.

Are these handheld?


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No, everyting is done on tripod. Wink