Recent Images - solar June 07

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Sunspot 0961 Date: 28th June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15 @f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M. This pair of images shows spot 0961 taken with filter off band limb, and one taken on band, which ive coloured.

Sunspot 0961 Date: 28th June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f16 @f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M. This pair of images show spot 0961 now clear of the limb, and a new small cluster of mini spots, just on to the disc.

Sunspot 0961 Date: 26th June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15@ f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M New sunspot 0916 is imaged here in poor seeing , close to the "on" limb. It is a good example of H a bright Cloud tops following the pattern of the plages.

Slender Prominence Date: 23rd June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15@ f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M This is a large feathery and quite unusual prominence

Sunspot 0960 Date: 10th June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15@ f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M This image shows the spot nearer the centre of the solar disc. This is where the granulation is most noticable, it blots out the more subtle detail of the plages. These are well shown in the broadband ha image. Note the "cartwheels" around the spot penumbras in narrow band Ha

Solar Prominence Date: 3rd June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15@ f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M Come on Mummy, try and keep up.

Solar Prominence Date: 3rd June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15@ f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M The Fiery Wizard

Sunspot 0960 Date: 3rd June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15@ f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M A wide field shot of 0960, made from two images , so as to show the prominences on the solar limb.

Sunspot 0960 Date: 3rd June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15@ f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M Again another pair of images of the same spot group. The LH is taken with a Herschel Wedge and Trutek type2 with ir block, and th eRH is in Ha using a Daystar .5A ATM filter.

Sunspot 0960 Date: 2nd June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15@ f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M 0960 Erupted a short while after the previous picture.Here we see the flare activity. You can see it "brewing" in the image below.

Sunspot 0960 Date: 2nd June 2007 Telescope: 6 inch f15 @f30 Camera: Lumenera 075M This is sunspot 0960. the LH image was taken with the HA filter before warm up, i.e. off band. The RH image was taken with the .65A Daystar ATM filter, fully warmed up.