Solar prominence

[Peter Ward]

The sun put on quite a show this morning...with a faint but really large prom that looped up as the day went on.

Full disk image can be seen here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery79.html)

[von Tom]

Fantastic image and detail Peter!

Tom

[John Hothersall]

That look spectacular, not pointing at us thankfully, can see more of these and bigger happening soon. Thanks for capturing this one Peter.

John.

[multiweb]

Real nice and detailed. :thumbsup:

[seeker372011]

wow
That looks huge!

[Paul Haese]

Well done Peter. I imaged this too but did not get anything as bright as your image. I could not move the etalon far enough to make that prominence look really bright. Your image contains lovely illumination and great detail.

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Guys.

I actually didn't notice the prom until I'd virtually finnished my imaging session...and was mucking about with the doppler shifter when I first noticed it.... :doh:

I'm using double stacked 90mm system, hence could get the required brightness while on band. The twin etalons also give even field illumination...nice when things work as advertised! :)

[Derek Klepp]

Nice capture Peter clouded out up North again.
Derek

[Paul Haese]

Yeah it was hard to see just in the eye piece. On the capture I just could not get enough brightness on band. Glad someone captured it though.

[telecasterguru]

Great image.

[Matt Wastell]

Yum!

[Troy]

Nice shot Peter :)

[Shiraz]

Outstanding image Peter.

[iceman]

That's a stunning image, Peter. The prominence is quite spectacular. Lovely processing too.

It's now IOTW (http://www.iceinspace.com.au).

[Peter Ward]

Thank you Mike....and my apologies for the new equipment purchase, which has undoubtedly brought on the cloud cover :)

[Frewi808]

Just checking out the latest solar posts here and o boy, that's a terrific image..
Freddy

[Peter Ward]

Thank you for the feed-back guys.

Iv'e added a higher-res image link (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/images/ssys/Sunearthprom.jpg) to the original page..... complete with an
accurately scaled planet earth image (NASA data) to give the flare's size a little perspective.....

Hope you like it!

[Robh]

Peter,

Absolutely awesome image!
Nice Earth yardstick. That's one big prominence.
Thanks for sharing.

Regards, Rob

[spearo]

Great shot
It's hard to get my head around the sheer size of that prominence compared to Earth!
Amazing !
frank

[ChrisM]

Peter - that's an amazing image, and one of the clearest amateur pics that I've seen of the Sun. The size of the prominence is mind-blowing!
Well done.

Chris

[Moon]

Is this the same event?
NASA's SDO Captures a Monster Prominence [video] (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5483193591/)

James

[Peter Ward]

Yep ! :)

[Moon]

Sweet!

[En1gma]

Goodness gracious great balls of fire. [cue tune]

Id say that the earth will be well done to charred on that account.

Spectacular image though. Love it!!