Although our Star, The Sun is only 93 million miles distant, is very luminous (visual magnitude -26), it is not such an easy object to image.

2.5" Tasco Refractor
Fujitsu SLR Camera exposure 1/125th sec.
Scanned photo with Unsharp Masking using Photoshop.
Camera was attached to the drawtude of the refractor with a mylar filter covering the objective lens.

All images are Copyright © 2005 John Cox