Plages and Sunspots: 7/1/24 |
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The Sun on 7/1/24 |
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Object Data |
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| Object type: | Sun | |
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| Distance: | 8 light minutes | |
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This image captures sunspots and accompanying plages throughout multiple active regions including:
AR3722, 3723, 3724, 3727, 3728 and 3730. Those bright threads of plasma
populating the sunspot groups and twisting in the magnetosphere are called
"plages". |
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Exposure Data |
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| Date: | 7/1/24 | |
| Location: | Backyard Observatory, Carlsbad, CA | |
| Telescope: | Lunt 100THa solar scope; double stack with 18mm blocking filter. | |
| Camera: | FLIR Grasshopper 23S6M videocamera (Sony IMX 174) | |
| Mount: | Losmandy G-11 Gemini I | |
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| Notes: | Surface (photosphere) captured at 120 f/s while prominences
(chromosphere)captured at 17 f/s.
Registered and stacked 10% of 3000 frames; blended and colorized in PS CC. Image is inverted so darker colors are cooler areas. Sunspots, being cooler than the photosphere are dark in this image. |
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