~ Solar Prominences ~
Taken by Noeleen Lowndes on February 15, 2015 @
Gold Coast QLD Australia
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Date Taken: 2015:02:16 10:56:21
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It finally cleared late yesterday afternoon so I could have a look at this stunning filament that has now traversed to the solar limb and seems to be called by a new name of a Fila prom. As noted by many of the astrophotographers here on Spaceweather, is does indeed look like a huge shark fin…if you live here on the coast in Australia like I do…well that’s just scarrrry!
What you can see quite clearly in the images is how this magnetic filament (prominence) is staying attached to the Suns surface; I did a close up where you can see how its still very firmly connected. Unlike the pretty delicate prominence that detached a few days ago (posted on Spaceweather on the 12th February) that just flew off into space…
There was also a lot of activity from another large sprawling prominence just below the other prominence; this must be from the Sunspot group AR2280 that has now rotated out of view on the western limb.
My images were taken with a Lunt 80mm solar telescope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x barlow lens, 30 images each were stacked in RegiStack6 and processed in PS.
The colour image is close to the colour as seen in the solar telescope and is a composite of two images one for the solar disc and one for the prominences that needs a slower exposure time to bring out the detail. The black and white image is a single stacked image and I used the monochrome setting in the camera, I find this setting shows a lot more delicate detail in the prominences :-)
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