Sun H-Alpha 30.05.15 (Prominence Alert)

[Macavity]

If you are enjoying a leisurely breakfast, might still be worth looking!
Nice Prominences - Almost got over-excited there with this one...

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice captures. Left the solar scope at home, and so the sun comes out (despite forecasts for a dreary day).

[xtreemchaos]

great shots Chris, lovely prom mate,well done. thanks charl.

[laudropb]

Very nice capture Chris.

[Peter Drew]

The Sun is still on its breakfast here! Hope it appears soon. 

[Davey-T]

Thanks for the view Chris, no Sun here today, guess I'll have to do some housework 

Dave

[David Smith]

Nice images Chris. Total cloud here

[paulastro]

Nice on Chris.  Good to see the shark's fin prominence still visible since yesterday.

[Iainp]

3 minutes ago, paulastro said:

Good to see the shark's fin prominence still visible since yesterday

Ha yes, I thought I recognised it! 

[Radec]

We've been abroad and missing all the fun!

Great image. Blend the two together??

[Pete Presland]

Good looking discs.

[Macavity]

Heheh. Must've been a shock to the old system (Got up at 6 a.m.)! 
 -- Now notice I got the Year wrong (-1) in the thread title!

Slowly working way through files. Wanted to check out "Barlowed"
stuff. Nothing exotic, just the good old "Skywatcher Basic" 2x. With
"chrome bit" dropped in the eyepiece clamp still gives approx. 1.8x!   

Clearly Aperture and Dbl stacking does better, but still experimenting!
Tried a bit of "contrast blending" on the "Shark-Fin" prominence...
Blends in fainter details? But contrast lost... more "glow" added etc. 

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[cshahar]

Good catch Chris. I haven't done any prominence imaging in a while. Great inspiration...

[Macavity]

Right, one FINAL effort! First some fairly random ImPPG'ing on one of the typical Barlowed images:
(I can stitch 2x2 images with M$ ICE, but not always too reliably or with all THAT great a result!) 

Then something more appropriate for typical "daily" production! (As a hobby, not a job?)
(I think it just about managed to link Filaprom to Prom - just in front of the "Shark Fin"...)

One more early-ish morning (tomorrow) just to see what happens to the Shark?

[Lowjiber]

Nice details and some good proms.  Thanks for sharing.

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