I was very excited to see a beautiful spouting prominence on the eastern edge of the Sun this morning (top left of image) that looked quite spectacular, there was also some of that giant cloud of plasma still ejecting out into space from the western limb.
It was very hard to capture and process the faint detail of the prominence on the western limb so I’ve coloured the outer edge to show the very faint wispy detail. (Click on image to enlarge for more detail)
Spaceweather.com website had an image of the event taken with NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on its front page on its site on the 23rdJanuary 2017.
http://www.spaceweather.com
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov
It was very hard to capture and process the faint detail of the prominence on the western limb so I’ve coloured the outer edge to show the very faint wispy detail. (Click on image to enlarge for more detail)
Spaceweather.com website had an image of the event taken with NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on its front page on its site on the 23rdJanuary 2017.
http://www.spaceweather.com
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov
 ~ Spouting Solar Prominence taken 24th January 2017 ~ |  ~ Sunspot AR2627 white light image ~ |
The view through the 127mm refractor was also a lovely sight; with the large sunspot AR2628 quite dark on the solar surface AR 2627 which is still quite faint…
The H-alpha images were taken with my Lunt 60mm solar telescope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens, exposures for solar disc were 1/200th second and ISO200. The settings for the prominences were exposures 1/15th second and ISO400, the images were combined and processed in PS CS4.
The H-alpha images were taken with my Lunt 60mm solar telescope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens, exposures for solar disc were 1/200th second and ISO200. The settings for the prominences were exposures 1/15th second and ISO400, the images were combined and processed in PS CS4.
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