Heads up - Sun blowing a gasket

[casstony]

Run to your Ha solar scopes people - giant looping filament/prominence.

[AstralTraveller]

Thanks for the heads up. Unfortunately there is excessive atmospheric dihydrogen monoxide filtration here. :(

[Liz]

Ooh, you guys with the Ha stuff, very jealous!! Enjoy the proms. :D

[casstony]

A while back I was clouded in for three days, missing some great activity the guys were talking about here. Hopefully there'll be some images turning up on IIS later today.

[AndrewJ]

Funnily enough
Melbourne has cleared up this arvo
Thats one awesome burst.

Andrew

[Moon]

looking forward to some pictures..

[casstony]

It looked best earlier this morning - somewhat broken up now, but still big - looks like the Tarantula nebula hovering above the limb of the Sun. Blowing a gasket is a slight exaggeration but it's the best I've seen in quite a while.

[casstony]

That eruption has mostly dissipated now though there's still some gas a long way out from the surface, but there's a beautiful, fine flare loop on the opposite side of the Sun.

Talk of a new Maunder minimum seems like a long time ago now.

[[1ponders]]

Ha rocks :D


I must get my PST back one day. :lol:

[casstony]

In my case it's compensation for not so good night time conditions, although last night was fairly clear and tonight's looking good.

[[1ponders]]

Ha night time rocks too ;) :D



when its attached to a camera. :P