January 30th, HAlpha, large detached prominence.

[paulastro]

Out from 9.15 to 9.30 this morning, clouded up after that.  It was mightily cold and windy - to be honest it's been clear off and on since then but I didn't want to go out again in the conditions on the off-chance of getting  a brief snatch of better seeing.  It's now snowing heavily as it has been for about 30 minutes. During my 15mts there was always some thin cloud, but beggars can't be choosers.

When I was inside I checked GONG a bit later and noticed the nice large 'semi-detached' prom that was on the SE of the limb yesterday had now lifted off.  I hadn't seen it through the viewfinder, but not surprising as it looked rather faint even on GONG and I had cloud interfering too.  It was just visible on two of my snaps, but I had to brighten the image considerably to get it to show up and this is the first pic below.  A bit over done, but it gives an idea what it was like.  Both images taken at 9.22am, Lunt 60mm DS, Olympus E-M5, 1000 asa, the first at 1/8 sec and the second at 1/15.

 

[Davey-T]

Nice Sun Paul, another event missed
Cloud and rain earlier but Sun is out now, too late to image though.

Dave

[xtreemchaos]

great shots Paul, loads of action there.thanks for sharing charl.

[Ibbo!]

I have one avi at the moment but the seeing was not good to say the least and am hoping to grab some more if I get a gap

also on high alert for rain

 

well done for getting the prom

 

[paulastro]

Best of luck Steve, please post the result if you manage to obtain some more data, it would be good to see it.

[Peter Drew]

Against all the prevailing odds I did actually get a good view which confirmed Paul's image, albeit only for a minute at most. Snowing heavily again now.

[David Smith]

Good captures Paul.

[Montana]

These are cracking images  I choose to clean my greenhouse instead and now I regret it after seeing this wonderful prom lift off on GONG

Alexandra

[Pete Presland]

Fabulous detached prom today very well captured. 

[DrRobin]

Shame about the conditions Paul, solar imaging is a testing hobby at this time of the year, still you captured all of the action.

I am lucky, my garage faces south, there is very little in front of me and the automatic door soon comes down to keep the snow/rain showers out, so I just leave my scope set up, sheltered from the wind ready for the next gap.

Robin

[paulastro]

I've gone really green thinking about your setup all ready to go in your south facing garage Robin.  I have to carry my equipment up a long set of uneven steps taking three trips