Monster prom alert, left side of the sun, Sunday 1st Feb

[DrRobin]

Hi,

Two monster proms actually. Put Sunday lunch on hold and get a view before they go. Pictures to follow.

Robin

[Luke]

Look forward to seeing the images, Robin!

Clouded out here, alas, no point warming up the Quark or even getting it to do some light stretching. Been looking at Gong and wishing the clouds would take a hike! It looks fab going by Gong. Good luck, everyone!

[Floater]

Was just about to post but you beat me to it, Robin. And I would say three proms on North and North-East limb worth seeing. One HUGE prom with two large ones on either side.

Managed to grab a view between snow showers but too cold to linger and another snow-laden cloud heading over ...

Well worth a look if you're lucky enough to to get a chance.

[Gazabone]

Looking forward to seeing the pictures. Had them in my PST earlier but clouds rolled in before I could get the camera hooked up. You're right though, absolute monsters.

[Mark at Beaufort]

Thanks for the heads up Robin. Its been cloudy in Hereford and its just cleared in the last 10 minutes. Set up the PST waiting for a clear spot. As you say some nice Proms on the East side at 70 and 30 degrees and a smaller one at 20 degrees.

[nipper1967]

we'de been out for sunday lunch , when we came home l read this report but l looked out and it was cloudy but at 2.45 there was a good gap in the cloud so l set up my scope and although l only managed about twenty minutes in between clouds it was worth it . That's one of the things l like my little lunt 50mm it only takes minutes to set up or put away. lt will be interesting to see any pictures anyone got earlier to see if the prommenences had died down a little by the time by the time l got to view them.

[Moonshane]

I was watching these earlier and the huge mobile one at the top of the Fisk was astounding, changing almost in real time.

There was also a large hedgerow prom on the right of the sun (left side in refractor view).

great surface detail too especially around the main ARs.

[Mark at Beaufort]

I now use this diagram to determine the compass position. Its does not take into consideration the Sun's tilt each day but it is useful for me to write up my observing report.

[Davey-T]

Monster clouds here, shame I could have tried out my Skyris 274 in the LS60, maybe tomorrow 

Dave

[Moonshane]

Thanks for that Mark will indeed be useful.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

No luck here, glad somebody caught it

[DrRobin]

Hi,

Well, that took a long while to process images from this morning.  Okay, I was jet washing the patio, took the dog for a walk, replaced the wifi Aps for some new kit and swapped in a 2x barlow on my night time rig, so only just got round to processing these.

This is a full disc in one go taken at just after 11:00 am, the proms were really nice at this time.

12 pane mosaic to follow, just as fast as my PC will process it.

Robin

[Floater]

Good stuff Robin. But how do you get that 'normal' view? Do you flip the image or do you use a 'right image' diagonal?

My East is on the right of the disc, as per Mark's diagram above of a refractor view.

[DrRobin]

12 pane mosaic.

Close ups to follow tomorrow.

Robin

[DrRobin]

Good stuff Robin. But how do you get that 'normal' view? Do you flip the image or do you use a 'right image' diagonal?

My East is on the right of the disc, as per Mark's diagram above of a refractor view.

Gordon,

My diagonal is north/south, so I flip the image vertically and then rotate to match the image on Gong to adjust for my Alt/AZ mount.  If you are flipped east/west (diagonal horizontally) then it would be a horizontal flip and possibly rotate.  At 11:00am at my house, no rotation was required and only mild rotation at 12:00 when the 12 pane mosaic was taken to correct for field rotation.

Robin

[Pete Presland]

A couple of crackers there, but alas cloudy out here all day.

[Montana]

Wow!!!! amazing shots :)

Alexandra

[David Smith]

Fantastic pics Robin.

[dazzaa1966]

Fantastic images Robin. ..

[Luke]

Super shots, Robin.

I particularly like the middle one of the trio.

Though it was a blank weekend for me, I'm liking that the Sun is sneaking up higher with every passing missed day.

[DrRobin]

Finally, close ups.  Taken with a 2x barlow, Lunt 60 DS.

Robin

[Davey-T]

Excellent stuff Robin, Sun never got to imaging quality here today.

Dave

[Montana]

Fabulous proms :) I had the day off yesterday and it was cloudy and miserable all day, came to work today and it is the most glorious blue sky all day so far!

Alexandra

[Stardust]

great set of images, very active