Date: May 23, 2010 2:52pm PDT

Location: Victoria, BC, Canada

There was only this single large solar prominence visible on the Sun this afternoon during some brief clear periods. The interesting structure of this prominence was visible through the eyepiece as well as in this photo.

Exposure: 1/15 second at ISO 800
Bandpass: <0.55 A

Equipment: Canon 7D dSLR a-focal through a 2.5x Powermate & Lunt LS60THa + LS50FHa solar telescope mounted on an HEQ5 tracking mount.

Processing: ACDSee Pro 3 - Sobel edge detection; modest contrast stretch, crop.