Solar prominences in Ha
Date/Time: Apr 07, 2012 3:24PM PDT
Location: My home, Victoria, BC, Canada
Three prominences with plasma trailing off parallel to the Sun's surface joined creating holes between the proms.
Equipment: Hutech-modified Canon T2i dSLR a-focal through a 2.5x Powermate, IDAS VLC filter, & Lunt LS60THa + LS50FHa solar telescope mounted on an HEQ5 tracking mount.
Exposure: 1/8 second at ISO 1600
Bandpass: <0.55 Å
Processing:
Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 - Raw develop (reduced Exposure, increased Clarity), applied Sobel method edge detection.
Adobe Lightroom 4 - crop and resize.
Observing log: http://tinyurl.com/6pbql45