On April 24, 2025, at 6:26 AM, I was walking at Ferrari Pond near where I live with my Nikon Z9 and Z600f/6.3 lens with the 2X teleconverter attached. The pond is surrounded by grasses and I liked how the grasses looked as the sun rose behind them visible through a sliver of clear sky under dense clouds so I took some shots. With a mirrorless camera, you’re not looking directly at the sun through the viewfinder so you’re not damaging your retina as you shoot. After taking a few shots, I focused on the sun instead of the grasses but I thought the sun looked blown out so I went back to shooting the grasses. I didn’t like any of the shots I got so none ever saw the light of day but yesterday, I ran across the RAW files I’d taken and discovered that the sun was not blown out when I focused on it. There were some wispy clouds visible across the front and spots on the sun. Spots? Sun spots? Really? Sun spots are visible through a regular camera? The spots appear in the upper right quadrant of the sun. A quick Google search revealed that in late April, sun spot number AR 4079 became visible on the sun’s surface and I inadvertently captured it. The spots are huge. Planet Earth would fit into one of the spots. This is not a spectacular shot by any means but I was so astounded that I actually photographed sun spots that I had to share. According to an article I saw about it, the spots were visible using the special solar eclipse glasses that we all had during the last solar eclipse. Who knew sun spots could be photographed?