A prominence and mosaic

[Paul Haese]

Its starting to get exciting now. Each week the new solar cycle is getting more and more active. Today whilst taking a look at Sol I noticed a lovely prominence and another new spot forming near AR11029. Just click on the links below for the image.

Prominence (http://paulhaese.net/Prom19nov2009.html)

Mosaic (http://paulhaese.net/19november2009solarmosaic.html)

Comments welcome

[Quark]

Bloody brilliant Paul,

Just how good do the proms look, do you reckon the prom in the foreground is looping all the way over and connecting with the prom on the limb, certainly looks like it?

Keep coming back to your proms image, mind you your mosaic is impressive but I just haven't seen anything to better this proms image, they are so well defined.

Excellent
Regards
Trevor

[Paul Haese]

The columns all connect to a filament prominence which seems to go over the limb. These are hard to capture well, I have seen heaps of images by some of the solar greats but I still am yet to capture a really monster which looks like this.

thanks Trevor.

[Troy]

Nice pictures Paul,
The prominence one has good colour and detail :thumbsup:

[lesbehrens]

stunning!!!!

[multiweb]

Your solar work is awesome Paul. Been peeking at your shots now and then. Inspiring. :eyepop: What kind of gear do you use for this? Do you use a dedicated scope and camera or just filters?

[Paul Haese]

Marc, there is information below each image but just to answer your question I have a 60mm Coronado Solarmax 60 at 0.5 angstroms and I use a 5x powermate with a lumenera skynyx 2-0 monochrome camera.

Thanks all for the comments.

[multiweb]

:doh::lol: Yeah just noticed. Didn't scroll down. I was just stuck looking at the photos :eyepop: ;)

[seeker372011]

awesome!

[daveg]

Brilliant Paul!

What we call over this part of the world a "Filaprom". Since thyre both the same thing. The filament is a prom seen against the brighter solar surface. When they arch over against the dark sky aswell its spectacular. And this is one of best examples of an FP image Ive seen. Well done again.

We have flood alerts throughout the country now with a storm on the way sat/sun so please do keep us up to date with El Sol.

david gradwell

[javier alves]

very nice paul. excelente work.:thumbsup:
regards

[Merlin66]

Great catch!!
Over here (UK) the weather has been absolutely terrible!! If it's not cloud, it's rain. Not helped by the low altitude of the Sun. Suffering solar withdrawal......
Hopefully the solar activity will continue to increase. Anyone taking white light images of the current sunspots????

[robin]

Marvellous image Paul. What a corker. Question, when you look through your Solarmax 60, is that clear image of the prominence the view you actually see? What I mean is, Is it fainter, clearer, darker, hard to see, easy to see?

[Paul Haese]

Robin on this occassion the prominence was actually brighter than the finished image. I could clearly see the prominence and the filament in place.

Some prominences are bright and some are faint. Many large ones are usually faint but your eye has a much higher dynamic range than the camera does and so each is easily seen.

[Kal]

Some fantastic images there Paul, looking forward to seeing more of them as the sun increases it's activity!

[Matt Wastell]

Awesome images mate - well done and thanks for sharing!

[Clayton]

Lovely detail and framing etc.:thumbsup:

[csb]

That's the best I've seen of recent activity.

As the Beatles sang, "Here comes the sun".

[robin]

Thanks for the explanation Paul & keep those excellent pics coming

[Moon]

Paul, that's an amazing image - the way it reaches up over the limb - it must be massive.
James