Solar prominences in Ha
Date/Time: Apr 16, 2012 3:03PM PDT
Location: My home, Victoria, BC, Canada
Huge solar prominences, including detached plasma on the large, but fainter prom at 8 o'clock position. Huge lines of plague are visible on the surface. Sunspots 1455, 1458 & 1459 are barely visible.
The detached prominence at the 8 o'clock position is considered an M1 class, which is potentially dangerous, however it is not aimed at Earth, so we are in the clear.
Observing Log: http://tinyurl.com/6pbql45
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: 1/10 second at ISO 1600
Bandpass: <0.55 Å
Processing:
Adobe Lightroom 4 - Raw develop (increased Clarity), crop and resize.