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~ Sunspots AR2628 & 2629 on the 26th January 2017 ~

1/26/2017

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The clouds parted just long enough later this afternoon for me to take some images of the new sunspot group AR2629. The other sunspot area AR2628 has a shape that looks quite interesting…it reminds me of a little tadpole with that wispy tail coming away from its dark centre :-)
 
The first image is orientated with the western side of the Sun to the bottom which shows AR2628 and the eastern side to the top right which shows AR2629; the second full disc image is in the correct orientation.
 
Both images were taken with my APO 127mm refractor telescope with a glass solar filter attached and using a Canon 700D camera, the first image had a 2x Barlow attached and the second image showing the full solar disc was at prime focus. 
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~ The Sun today with Sunspot AR2628 & AR2629 ~
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~ The Sun in white light taken with a refractor telescope ~
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~ The Sun taken with a Lunt H-alpha refractor telescope ~
~ The Sun in H-alpha shows a huge solar prominence on the limb ~
 
When you look in a dedicated solar telescope at the Sun in the H-alpha wavelength you can sometimes see so much more incredible detail.
 
This is what happened when I decide to take off the white light refractor and have a look at the Sun with my solar telescope…to my surprise and delight there on the eastern limb was a large wedge shape prominence firing away out into space, not that far away from the new sunspot group AR2629.
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~ Huge wedge shape solar prominence ~
I’ve sometimes noticed that when a large prominence is displayed like this on the eastern limb, that within a day or two a new sunspot group rotates into view.
​I wonder if this will happen again and we’ll have another new sunspot soon…
 
Images were taken with a Lunt 80mm solar telescope and a Canon 700d camera with a 2x Barlow lens; this is a composite image to capture the different exposures needed for the solar disc and the faint prominences. Exposures were 1/200th second and ISO200 for the solar disc and 1/15th second and ISO 200 for the prominences.
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