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UniPol
18-06-2013, 04:25 PM
Just a quick rough shot of the sun today if you missed out, very large and impressive prominence.

Merlin66
18-06-2013, 06:16 PM
Steve,
What Ha set-up were you using?
PST?

batema
18-06-2013, 06:27 PM
We had a Lunt 100 at our school athletics carnival today so saw that beautiful prominance as did at least 500 kids. We had the thing going for 5 hours straight and always had kids lined up. It was a great day. Tomorrow we are doing the same so hopefully it will put on an equally impressive show.

Mark

UniPol
18-06-2013, 06:36 PM
I am using a Solarmax 90 Ken. The image was taken with my P & S camera through a TV 20mm Plossl , pretty lazy I know but one day I'll get serious. Nothing like looking through the EP though with the Sun beating down so to speak.

UniPol
18-06-2013, 06:40 PM
I've been doing quite a bit of casual teaching recently Mark and hadn't given it a thought to take my solar scope along to school, the deputy gives me a pretty full day. When I was fulltime it was a different story. Did the kids get around to entering any events?

Poita
19-06-2013, 03:00 PM
I have taken the Lunt to the local schools on many occasions, it is always a huge hit.

Buddman
19-06-2013, 03:25 PM
Today we had the borrowed Lunt 100 at the second day of the schools athletics carnival and saw a prom turn into a massive CME that shot off the side of the sun to about a third the diameter of the sun. It took about an hour so heaps of kids saw it happen and were blown away. I think we impressed the P and C president. We happened to mention how good it would be if we had a Lunt 100 (150 would be even better):D.

Awesome spectacle.

Adam

Matt Wastell
19-06-2013, 04:07 PM
Sounds like fun! I am sad I missed the mega lif off!