The sun was displaying these three fine prominences
AR11272
Date:
19-August-2010
Telescope:
See Image for details
Camera:
Flea3 1/4inch
For details on active region numbering see http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=19&month=08&year=2011
Active Regpon AR11217
Date:
19-August-2010
Telescope:
AP 130 f8 plus Coronado 90mm single stack
Camera:
Flea3 1/4inch
Mote the beautiful feathery magnetic field lines shaping the Hydrogen plasma "clouds" around the sunspots
Solar Prominence
Date:
15-August-2010
Telescope:
AP 130 f8 plus Coronado 90mm single stack
Camera:
Flea3 1/4inch
Here we see a false colour image of a beautiful arch prominence. It should really be one shade of red as seen in the very narrow spectral line of Hydrogen alpha, whose wavelength is 656.28 Angstroms, which is in the deep red part of the spectrum. Special very clever and expensive filters are required to view these phenomena. See http://www.solarscope.co.uk/contact.html
