Huge solar prominences in Ha wavelength
Date/Time: May 11, 2012 2:28PM PDT
Location: My home, Victoria, BC, Canada
Some huge prominences are visible today, including this big pyramid-shaped prom with loops of plasma flying off into space are visible in this Sobel-enhanced image.
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.
Processing: Photoshop Elements 10 - 'Liquid Edges' or Sobel method applied to 8 bit version of image