by Craig and Tammy Temple
This image of the Sun, captured on the morning of June 12, 2011, is a composite
of two images that were combined to show the prominences and surface together.
We think the bright prominence to the left of the large center one looks like
the shape of a person that is pointing to the large prom. The image was
processed in false-color, then cropped to remove the bad edges that resulted
from aligning the two images
Telescope: Lunt Solar Systems
LS60THa/B1200CPT
Accessories: TeleVue 2.5x Powermate
Mount: Orion Atlas
EQ-G performance tuned by Astrotroniks, controlled by EQMOD
Camera: Imaging
Source DMK31
Exposure: 1/15sec. (prominences), 1/77sec. (surface)
Gain:
888 (prominences), 500 (surface)
Length: 2:00 each
Acquisition: IC
Capture.AS (Uncompressed AVI) @ 15fps (prominences), 30fps
(surface)
Processing: Registax 6: stack each frame set,
wavelets
Post-processing: Adobe Photoshop CS5: align frames
Capture time:
June 12, 2011, 9:32am CDST
Capture conditions: 80°F; transparency: Below Avg.
2/5; seeing: Good 4/5, thin clouds
Location: Hendersonville, TN, USA