Hazy setting Sun

The Sun was very low in the sky with thin cloud covering it. Despite taking many shots this was as clear as I could get it. There are some sunspot groups but they have not shown up very well. As it gets higher through the year I should be able to get much sharper images. As a point of information this is one of the quietest periods for sunspot activity in many years. There have been much larger and spectacular sunspot groups in the past, many easily visible to the naked eye when the Sun has been suitably dimmed by cloud. I must say that you should NEVER look at the Sun directly without appropriate protection and under no circumstances look at it with binoculars or telescopes!