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The image of the Sun’s Chromosphere was taken on 04/11/2021 at 12:53 PM ET, using an Altair Hypercam 174M mono CMOS camera, fan cooled and a Daystar Quark Chromosphere H-Alpha filter. The image was over exposed to show the solar prominence to the lower right. Nasa data was analyzed to guestimate (visual) the Earth’s size in comparison to the prominence. Processing software used, AutoStakkert 2.6.8 (200 sub-frames), RegiStax 6.0, and Adobe photoshop. Nasa data: https://lnkd.in/djNtn-X (no copyright data was taken from Nasa).

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A Daystar Quark Chromosphere Hydrogen-Alpha filter with an internal telecentric Barlow at 0.5 Angstrom bandwidth was used. A Televue 2.5x Powermate used with a Lunt 80MT APO refractor and Altair Hypercam 174m monochrome camera, cooled.

The Sun’s surface in Calcium light (half disk) was captured using an Altair Hypercam 174m monochrome camera, fan cooled and Daystar Quark Calcium H-line filter with a built-in telecentric Barlow. The second image (right) of the Sun’s Chromosphere was captured using the same camera equipment above, but in addition a Daystar Quark Chromosphere Hydrogen-Alpha filter with an internal telecentric Barlow at 0.5 Angstrom bandwidth was used. A Televue 2.5x Powermate & SharpCap was used to magnify and stretch the image. The telescope used, a Lunt 80MT APO refractor. Solar processing software used: Stakkert2 for analyzing, stacking, and processing the image. Registax 6.0 was used to intensify the wavelet of the image and Adobe photoshop was used to create the final image. There were 200 sub-frames used for stacking.

The solar photography equipment used was a Lunt 80MT APO refractor, Televue 2.5x Powermate and Altair Hypercam 174M mono camera, cooled.

The solar photography equipment used was a Lunt 80MT APO refractor, Televue 2.5x Powermate and Altair Hypercam 174M mono camera, cooled.

The Sun, shown in Calcium light, using a Daystar Quark Calcium H-Line filter. The image was captured using 300 sub-frames taken on April 12, 12:00 PM ET. The solar photography equipment used was a Lunt 80MT APO refractor, Televue 2.5x Powermate and Altair Hypercam 174M mono camera, cooled.

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This is our closest star, “The Sun”. The image of our planet was added to show the scale of “Earth” in comparison to several solar prominences. The solar prominences were taken on April 12, 2021 at 12:54 PM ET, using a Lunt 80MT APO refractor, Daystar Quark Chromosphere H-Alpha filter and Televue 2.5x Powermate, with 200 sub-frames stacked. The camera used, an Altair Hypercam 174M mono CMOS camera.

The image of the Leo Triplet, M66 was taken using 31 sub-frames at 60 second exposures each, with a camera temperature set at -25C. The telescope used, Explore Scientific ED165 mm APO F/7 refractor and ASI2600 CMOS OSC camera & Optolong -L Pro filter. Note: The bright star HD98388 is located lower left of NGC 3628,