Strings of filaments on the southwestern surface of the sun
Strings of filaments on the southwestern surface of the sun |
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Ha Solar Image |
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Object Data |
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| Object type: | Sun | |
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| Notes: | Strings of filaments on the southwestern surface . As a prominence moves across the face of the sun, it appears dark (light in this inverted image) against the hotter surface. This creates a shadowy serpent-like formation referred to as a filament. | |
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Exposure Data |
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| Date: | 7/29/21 | |
| Location: | Backyard Observatory, Carlsbad, CA | |
| Telescope: | Lunt LS100T Ha Double Stack solar scope | |
| Camera: | FLIR Grasshopper 23S6M videocamera | |
| Mount: | Losmandy G-11 | |
| Exposure time: | 15% of 2000 frames | |
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| Notes: | Frame rate of 120/s | |
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