The beauty of doing solar observing and imaging is that you never know what the Sun is going to do and what you’re going to see.
So with a bit of spare time this morning I decide to get out and have a look at our Sun before getting on with the rest of the day.
Active region 2671 was developing very nicely, so I decided to do that first in white light first.
Image below taken through a 120mm Evostar refractor.
Lunt Herschel Wedge, Baader Continuum filter and DMK41 camera.
Active region 2671 in Ha Light. 120mm Evostar refractor.
Quark Chromosphere with 1.5 focal reducer and DMK41 camera.
The magnetic fields around the sunspots showing extremely nicely.
The star of the morning however was this huge prominence on the limb.
Same setup as above.
The prominence changed very quickly.
Just over an hour later, I thought it looked like a ghostly outstretched hand.
Maybe it was a welcoming gesture to the Moon, as it approached for the total solar eclipse across the US on Monday.
But it didn’t last long. An hour and half later it became unstable and could no longer be supported.
It had started to collapse and faded considerably as shown below.
That’s what I love about the Sun. So unpredictable.
