September 9th - H Alpha - Something Crawling over the Sun?

[paulastro]

Best seeing this morning around 10 am, took some frames just after  I'd finished my white light session.  Most of the prominences were in the E/NE, about 9/10 of them spread out nicely, including some detached material.  They seemed quite faint though.   The long filament which has entertained us so well is now almost at the W limb, and will hopefully produce some nice prominences or filaproms over the next few days.  To my eyes, it looked like a long thin creature, with a long tail curved back toward the E and having about four pairs of legs.  That reminds me, I must have my medication checked !!

A single frame with the Lunt 60 DS and Olympus E-M10 at 500 asa.  Taken at 10.15 am on 1/80 sec.

 

 

 

[Iainp]

Oh yes, looking good! 

Iain 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice. Lovely detail

[cshahar]

Great image. I hope i get another crack at that AR.

-Charles

[Pete Presland]

Looks like a caterpillar makes its way over the limb. Very nice disc.

[Davey-T]

Super sharp detail for a single image.

Dave

[johnfosteruk]

Stunning Paul, nice to see that filament still hanging around.

[paulastro]

Many thanks for your kind comments everyone .

[cshahar]

Very dramatic Paul. It does look like a creepy crawly, doesn't it? Or a comb-over...

-Charles