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The active Sun

Mark Johnston from Scottsdale, Arizona

Prominences and filaments snake across this 6-panel mosaic of the Sun in inverted Hα taken March 13 with a 4-inch Lunt telescope. Each panel is 200 stacked frames (out of 2,000).