Information from Spaceweather.com Website Late yesterday afternoon at 4pm (AEST) I got the biggest thrill when I put my little 60mm Lunt solar telescope onto my mount and pointed it at the Sun and saw AR2740 going off like a rocket!!! These four images were taken over just 10 minutes in duration and it was very exciting to watch and capture.
If you look closely at the active region (middle of image) you’ll see the solar material being blasted away and travelling across the surface of the Sun as a dark mass of plasma…a small CME in motion!
I was very lucky to capture this event as the Sun was getting very low and I’d just packed away my refractor telescope, I just thought I would take a peek at the Sun in H-alpha to see if it was doing anything exciting…and Wow, it was!
Images taken with a Lunt 60mm solar scope and a ZWO ASI 120MC-S camera at prime focus, I captured AVI movie files and stacked them in RegiStax6 and processed in PS CS4…there was also a small prominence on the eastern limb so maybe there is another sunspot coming….
Note from Noeleen:
If you watch the slideshow you will see the path of the solar material being blasted away from the Sun
over just a few minutes...Wow!
The next day an image of this solar flare from the Solar Dynamics Observatory was posted on Spaceweather.com
http://www.spaceweather.com
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov
If you look closely at the active region (middle of image) you’ll see the solar material being blasted away and travelling across the surface of the Sun as a dark mass of plasma…a small CME in motion!
I was very lucky to capture this event as the Sun was getting very low and I’d just packed away my refractor telescope, I just thought I would take a peek at the Sun in H-alpha to see if it was doing anything exciting…and Wow, it was!
Images taken with a Lunt 60mm solar scope and a ZWO ASI 120MC-S camera at prime focus, I captured AVI movie files and stacked them in RegiStax6 and processed in PS CS4…there was also a small prominence on the eastern limb so maybe there is another sunspot coming….
Note from Noeleen:
If you watch the slideshow you will see the path of the solar material being blasted away from the Sun
over just a few minutes...Wow!
The next day an image of this solar flare from the Solar Dynamics Observatory was posted on Spaceweather.com
http://www.spaceweather.com
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov
 ~ Lunt Solar Scope aimed at the Sun ~ |  ~ Lunt 60mm scope on HEQ5 Pro Mount ~ |
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