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When it is done correctly, solar photography can be very rewarding. It is the most accurate way of recording sunspots and other solar features – although, as explained in Chap. 4, it is more difficult to do accurate positional measurements using photographs than it is using drawings. Nevertheless, photographs of the Sun’s full disc are excellent for showing what was visible on the Sun on a particular day, and they show the appearance of the Sun's features far more realistically than drawings ever can.
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Macdonald, L. (2012). Imaging the Sun with a Digital Camera. In: How to Observe the Sun Safely. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3825-0_7
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