Solar Prominence and CME in Motion - Time Lapse and Photos
Taken by Miguel Claro on February 22, 2022 @
Dark Sky® Alqueva, Portugal
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On 22th February, 2022, the Sun has featured a gigantic solar prominence over the chromosphere, throwing a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. This was my most stressful and lucky capture. As soon as I realised that the prominence was growing so fast and drastically, I had to quickly decide what to do. So I decided to interrupt the first sequence and rotate the camera framing again for the new composition, to be able to keep capturing this growing giant ejection. It’s the highest “flame” I saw and record until now. So tall comparing the Sun’s disc that we could fit probably dozens of planet Earths inside. Seeing was good, not perfect, but nice enough for a time lapse. So I made a huge effort of gathering as much images as possible. The sequence was captured between UT11h58 and UT14h16. The final result is a 4K high resolution solar movie comprising around 2hours and 15 minutes, captured from the Dark Sky® Alqueva region, Portugal. Here is the animations from NASA (https://www.miguelclaro.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20220625144432_1024_aia_0304.mp4) SDO and LASCO-c2 (Cactus CME detection - https://www.miguelclaro.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CME_220222_UT1348.mp4) from this same day, showing the same giant as seen from the probe in Space.
Attached are some still shots presented in color and monochromatic version, intended to help conduct the reader attention to the most interesting parts of the image.
High Resolution 4k Video in Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/724434653
Above is possible to watch the video time lapse sequence compiling 335 shots processed, each one as result of a stack of the best 200 frames from each raw video. The final result is a 4K high resolution time lapse movie comprising around 2 hours.
Everything and technical details on my webpage:
https://www.miguelclaro.com/wp/portfolio/solar-time-lapse-of-a-large-prominence-releasing-a-cme/
Photographer's website:
https://www.miguelclaro.com
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