paulastro Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 (edited) I arrived home from town (where it had snowed heavily for a few minutes) at 10.30am just as a patch of blue approached the Sun - another mad rush to get the kit outside. Made it before it clouded over completely and had a session from 10.36 to 10.44 am and rattled off a few frames. The seeing and transparency wasn't great but beggars can't be choosers. Nice to see the progress of the largest filament but I was also in for a surprise. I took one of the first frames on 1/2 second exposure by mistake, and on the E limb was a nice prominence which would have been detached had it not been 'tethered' at two points to the limb - it looked a bit like a tethered barrage balloon, all be it a strange shaped one. I could not see the feature at all through the viewfinder unless I set the camera to over-expose the disk quite substantially. I looked at GONG on my phone and the 9.46 (UT) image from Uadipur, India, only showed a few elements of it, and only then very faintly. The first image, showing surface detail, was taken at 10.39am, Lunt 60mm DS, Olympus E-M5, 1/60 sec at 500 asa. The whole disk photo to show the position of the tethered prom was taken at the same time, 1/2 sec at 500 asa. The close-up of the prom is a crop of the same image. Edited March 29, 2016 by paulastro 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montana Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Wow! that is fabulous! Alexandra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulastro Posted March 29, 2016 Author Share Posted March 29, 2016 Many thanks Alexandra, very lucky though, if I hadn't over-exposed it in the first place I would never have known it was there! I'm hoping someone has managed to capture a high res version and that they will post it on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtreemchaos Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 great shot paul, loads of action, yer the seeing wasnt its best here.thanks, charl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Presland Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Fantastic catch, its always worth up the exposure to see what might be lurking around the limb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laudropb Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Very good capture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby1970 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Excellent capture, well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey-T Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Great catch Paul, I took a quick video of it between the clouds, haven't processed it yet. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulastro Posted March 29, 2016 Author Share Posted March 29, 2016 Thanks Dave, please, please post your video here when you've processed it, I'd love to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Smith Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Good disk and even better proms! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.h.f.wilkinson Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Great captures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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