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File: 2012 total solar eclipse prominences

hatfieldb

This photo was taken from the cruise ship Dawn Princess north of Port Douglas Australia on Nov 14, 2012, with a Nikon D800 camera at the prime focus of a Celestron 5 inch SCT. The relatively short 1/320th of a second shows several solar prominences. Note how the corona arcs around the prominence at top...

on Tue, Nov 20 2012
File: 2012 total solar eclipse prominences

hatfieldb

This is a 1/320th sec exposure taken with Nikon D800 camera through Celestron 5 inch SCT, from the deck of the Dawn Princess cruise ship east of Port Douglas Australia on Nov. 14, 2012. The relatively short exposure shows several solar prominences.

on Tue, Nov 27 2012
File: 2-panel Solar Mosaic - Nov. 17, 2011

CraigAndTammy

Here is another mosaic that we made from the data we collected on November 17, 2011. This mosaic of the southwest portion of the sun includes four active regions with plages (solar flares) and filaments, as well as some prominences along the limb. AR1350 is located at the bottom of this image. Moving...

on Mon, Nov 21 2011
File: 36-panel Solar Composite Mosaic 6-29-2011

CraigAndTammy

This image was created by "stitching" 16 individual images together to create a mosaic of the outer edge of the Sun showing the prominences. Then 20 individual images were "stitched" together to create a mosaic of the surface of the Sun. We then combined the two mosaics together...

on Sun, Jul 31 2011
File: 5-panel Solar Mosaic - Nov. 17, 2011

CraigAndTammy

The sun was quite active on November 17, 2011, so we decided to put together this 5-panel mosaic of some interesting regions. This image shows some nice prominences, plages, and filaments, as well as a huge filaprom that spans a good distance of the sun. Telescope: Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200CPT...

on Fri, Nov 18 2011
File: A "detached" solar prominence on 6 Jun 2011

CraigAndTammy

by Craig and Tammy Temple With the Sun providing a nice showing of solar prominences today, June 6, 2011, we were able to capture a nice shot of a "detached" prominence along with a nice surface prom. In an attempt to "show off" the proms, we processed the image in false-color...

on Tue, Jun 7 2011
File: A mammoth walking on the Sun!

Rodrigo Andolfato

Today (08/27/2011) I was looking at the sun with a small Coronado PST without double-stacking and, for my surprise, I saw a mammoth walking peacefully on our star. The picture was taken by a Celestron Neximage and processed in Registax 6 Great skies for all of your!!

on Sun, Aug 28 2011
File: A prominent prominence

kohamher1

Nice prominence today, 05/13/2012

on Sun, May 13 2012
File: Around the Horn

kohamher1

There was a plethora of prominences around the limb of the Sun today, the day before Christmas eve.

on Mon, Dec 24 2012
File: Bird-shaped CME - Sun 13 May 2012

MROCKENBACH

by Marcos L Rockenbach Local: Caxias do Sul / Brazil Telescope: Coronado PST doublestacked. Eyepiece Celestron X-Cell 18 mm. Camera Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS1, ISo 200, 1/8 sec. Original pictures black and white. Colour, constrast and brightness Photoshop CS4.

on Mon, May 14 2012
File: Double filament on Sun - 5 Feb 2012

Rodrigo Andolfato

Telescope: Orion Premium Ed 102mm (PST - C-ERF 90mm) Canon EOS T2i Software: EOS movie recorder - Registax 6 - Photoshop CS4 - Windows Live Galery

on Mon, Feb 6 2012
File: Earth: one small world.

MROCKENBACH

by Marcos L Rockenbach Local: Caxias do Sul / Brazil Date: 18 January 2012 - Local time: 07h36min to 07h45min. Sun detail: Telescope Coronado PST double stacked, eyepiece Celestron X-Cel 18mm, camera: Panasonic Lumix-DMC-ZS1, ISO 80 and ISO 1600 ( prominence ). Sun: stack 08 pictures. Prominence...

on Mon, Jan 23 2012
File: Filamentary solar mosaic

kohamher1

I had to stitch two images together to capture the entire breadth of these filaments on November 11th, 2012

on Sun, Dec 2 2012
File: FIRE!!!

kohamher1

I shot this image on October 19th, 2011. Seeing was not real good and the surface detail left a lot to be desired... But the Prominences were really nice, so I didn't want to trash the image. I decided to crop out the surface detail with a black mask, kind of like a coronagraph image. Then the...

on Tue, Jan 17 2012
File: Floating prominence

Jean B

Seeing was bad on the 8 of october. However I was able to catch a few proeminences on the sun limb. This image present one of them with a floater. Equipment: Lunt LS60T EQ3 motorized mount DMK21 (Avis of 30 seconds) Processing (combinaition of two images): Registax 5.1 PS...

on Fri, Oct 19 2012
File: GEYSER!!!

kohamher1

It looked like old Faithful spewing off steam on the Sun today, but it was actually a Plasma Geyser and it put on an awesome show!

on Thu, Mar 22 2012
File: Ghostly solar prominence 01

Behyar

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on Mon, Oct 31 2011
File: Ghostly solar prominence 02

Behyar

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on Mon, Oct 31 2011
File: Giant Solar Prominence

mborman

November 13, 2011

on Tue, Nov 15 2011
File: Great Prominences

Rodrigo Andolfato

Telescope: Ed 102mm - PST - C-ERF 90mm Camera: DMK21AF04.AS Mount: Celestron CG-5 GT Orion Shorty 2x Barlow 750/2500 frames stacked in Registax 6. Mosaic: No Seeing: Very Good Time: 01:00pm UTC - 10:00am Local

on Fri, Mar 23 2012
File: Great solar prominences on 6 Jun 2011

CraigAndTammy

by Craig and Tammy Temple The Sun was real active today, giving us an opportunity to capture some great prominences. This false-color image shows some of the larger proms that were visible during our imaging session. Telescope: Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200CPT Accessories: TeleVue 2.5x Powermate...

on Tue, Jun 7 2011
File: Inner corona, Novosibirsk, 2008

Elias C

by Elias Chasiotis. Total solar eclipse from Novosibirsk, Russia, August 1, 2008. Bresser Skylux 70mm F10 refractor, Canon 450D, ISO 200, exposure 1/160 sec. (width 1600 pixels)

on Mon, Oct 12 2009
File: Large Solar Prominence

DaveMitsky

by Dave Mitsky I used a 40mm f/10 Coronado PST, an 8-24mm Tele Vue zoom eyepiece, and a Canon PowerShot SD980 IS camera on 2010/3/18 to capture afocally this large prominence on the Sun's leading limb. A number of filaments and a bright flare region can also be seen.

on Wed, Mar 24 2010
File: Large Solar Prominence

Jaicoa2

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...

on Thu, Nov 17 2011
File: Prominence - 5 Jun 2011

soldati.org

Zeiss APQ 150/1200 @ 4200mm resulting focal length DayStar Filter QPE 0.4Å Point Grey Research Grasshopper Camera

on Mon, Jun 13 2011