Prominences on the Southwestern Limb of the Sun

 


Ha Solar Image


Object Data

Object type: Sun
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Notes: Sunspots associated with AR2805 and plasma ribbons dominated the southwestern surface today.

Exposure Data

Date: 2/24/21
Location: Backyard Observatory, Carlsbad, CA
Telescope: Lunt 100 PTHa Double Stack solar scope
Camera: FLIR Grasshopper videocamera
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Exposure time: 10% of 3000 frames at 22 f/s 
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Notes: Click below for a 90-minute time-lapse of the prominence.  A sequence of 15 images collected with 5-minute intervals was used to build this 3-second looping  gif animation

 

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