Yesterday, the "boring" prominences from the day before suddenly blossomed and became quite active. Sputtering plasma around. Unfortunately, some clouds rolled in, so I had to cut it short. But later in the afternoon, I started filming an area around a sunspot. And I am glad I did. It flared up at the end of my run. The Sun was getting low, so there was a lot of turbulence. But it is still acceptable quality.
When I checked the Gong network today, it was obvious something was going on all around. So I couldn't decide which prominence to film. And I decided to go wideangle. After the filming, it was obvious that the newcomer, although bright and powerful, didn't have much in the order of dynamics. So I should probably have just stayed with the one from yesterday. But here is the both of them.
I also added one photo to show the size compared to the Earth. Earth is shown in the little image on the sun. Click on the image to zoom in.
Whispy prominence on the Sun. A continuation from yesterday.
Tech det : 5" H-alpha telescope, ASI174MM camera, gain 275, 6ms exposure, 1000 images per 20 second for 2 hours. Stacked in AS!3 (best 25%), sharpened and aligned in imPPG. Animated in PIPP.
The universe sometimes conspires against me. Today, I found a beautiful prominence shooting in all directions. But wouldn't you know. The only place the clouds decided to pop up today, was in front of the sun. ll the way to the horizon, the skies were, more or less, clear. But there was a strip of clouds passing in front of the sun. But I did manage to get something from the movement. In two timelapses. The first one had a lot of "holes" in it due to the clouds popping in and out of view. But I did get some of the action. The second was more continous. Enjoy!
Yesterday and today, I did some timelapses of the surface of the Sun. I just love my 5 inch telescope. Showing so much detail of what is happening on the surface.
The first is a prominence that I thought would amont to something, but didn't. It was flapping a bit, but nothing big. Today, after work, I managed to take a short timelapse before the Sun dropped too low. And I got to see a little spurting on the surface an the edge.
The data is the same for both except the gain is 275 and exposure 6 ms for the prominence, and 175 and 5ms for the surface video.
