Sun Today 18th June

[UniPol]

Just a quick rough shot of the sun today if you missed out, very large and impressive prominence.

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Steve,
What Ha set-up were you using?
PST?

[batema (Mark)]

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]

Originally Posted by Merlin66

Steve,
What Ha set-up were you using?
PST?

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]

Originally Posted by batema

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

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 (Peter)]

I have taken the Lunt to the local schools on many occasions, it is always a huge hit.

[Buddman (Adam)]

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).

Awesome spectacle.

Adam

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Sounds like fun! I am sad I missed the mega lif off!