Large Solar Prominence

Posted by Jaicoa2
on Thursday, November 17, 2011

Efrain Morales Rivera

Date: 11/14/2011, 16:06ut

Location: Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Equipment: SolarMax 40 (Ha), P/B LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, PGR Flea3 Ccd, PowerMate 2.5x barlows, Astronomik Ir filter. At 50fps (foreground), 105fps (background), 10sec. ea.

A Large Solar Prominence on the south-eastern side of the limb with beautiful contrail strings returning back to the surface. An Animation was made showing these movements.

At: http://www.jaicoa-observatory.com/SUN-Prom-14_11_2011_1535-1607_1719-1802-Anim-EMr2.gif

 

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