Fridays Full Disk - 25th November

[markt]

Hi Everybody,

Was fortunate to get my first imaging run on the sun since 15th october yesterday - this time of year the sun is skirting the rooftops on the urban skyline. However I have about a 45min window when it passes in a gap between 2 houses, and luckily everything came together and I was able to capitalise on this...

There's loads happening on our star at the moment: The filaments are so dense they're almost knotted together, and a lovely line of active regions in the northern hemisphere. I also managed to capture a bright surge prominence on the south eastern limb (~ 8 o'clock) - it's crown like appearance similar to the splash you get when a stone is thrown in water... It's a bit soft image wise, but the sun is low and seeing is poor amongst the rooftops.

full disk 3 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Taken with my usual setup - DS40 @ f21, DMK31 and 6 pane mosaic.

Hope you like!

Mark

[PeterW]

Darn cloud!!! Looking very good, seems that some of the filaments have pinged off since then (GONG H Alpha Network Monitor)

Cheers

PEter

[Montana]

Sure we love it Mark

Beautiful proms too.

Alexandra

[p1taylor]

Very detailed Mark, wish I could see sun ether in cloud or behind houses.

peter

[smerral]

Lovely image Mark . Far too windy up here to even contemplate getting the scope out.

[markt]

Cheers guys! Appreciate your kind words

[Photosbykev]

Nice work Mark, no chance on Anglesey at the moment I would need to anchor the tripod legs with concrete blocks with the gusting wind lol

[sheri_barri]

45min window?!? You are very lucky!! Nicely captured. Interesting filamentary formations curling around the active regions.