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.
Telescope: Lunt Solar Systems
LS60THa/B1200CPT
Accessories: TeleVue 2.5x Powermate
Mount: Orion Atlas
EQ-G performance tuned by Astrotroniks
Camera: Imaging Source
DMK31
Exposure: 1/6sec.
Gain: 852
Length: 3:00
Acquisition: IC
Capture.AS (Uncompressed AVI) @ 7.5fps
Processing: Registax 6: best 75%
frames
Post-processing: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Capture time: June 6, 2011,
8:42am CDST
Capture conditions: 76°F; transparency: Avg. 3/5; seeing: Exc.
5/5
Location: Hendersonville, TN, USA