May 2, 2015: The day of 1,000,000 km of filaments

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Captured a 21 pane mosaic of the sun today. Amazing detail in the massive string of filaments in the "Arnie" structure. Usual Solar Spectrum set-up.

Grey Scale:

Part inverted:

Pseudo colour:

Part inverted plus pseudo colour:

I also captured a 4 pane mosaic of just the filament:

[Davey-T]

Excellent, no Sun for me today

Now going to take a new set of flats to keep myself amused.

Dave

[JB80]

Beautiful Michael!

[Luke]

Super work, Michael. What a mega structure

I am taking flats today as well

[Dave Smith]

Fantastic. You are lucky with the weather it is mostly clouded out here. In a tiny gap I did manage a bit of this that I will post later.

Dave

[Space Cowboy]

Super filament detail Michael!

[David Smith]

Fantastic work Michael.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Thanks everyone.

One thing I did differently was the way I got the flats. I put a layer of cling film in front of the ERF, and that gave a beautifully smooth flat. No post-processing needed. Well pleased.

[jetstream]

Congrats Michael. The detail is top notch, I can only imagine what your images will look like when you hook the Solar Spectrum up to more aperture. I have to say it again...I can't believe how good these images are- your APM set up is fantastic.

[Pig]

Excellent images Michael and thanks for sharing  If the cloud cover maps are correct there will be no chance here until Tuesday and the filament maybe gone by then. There is a nice prominence on the right also.

Fantastic "Blockbuster" title for the post

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Cheers Gerry and Shaun

[Mr Spock]

Very impressive.

[Pete Presland]

That is a fantastic filament!