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.
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.
~ The Sun today with Sunspot AR2628 & AR2629 ~
 ~ The Sun in white light taken with a refractor telescope ~ |  ~ 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.
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.
~ 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.
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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