Huge Proms Today! | HA | March 26th 2019

[MalVeauX]

Heya,

If you have a scope, get out there if conditions allow, there's a huge hedge prominence on the limb unlike what we typically see during the minimum. Despite nothing else really on the surface, no active regions, only a few minor filaments, but nothing that at all compares to how impressive this prominence grouping is. Hopefully it will last a while for more folk to see it, truly a spectacle!

Colored:

B&W:

Earth Scale:

Equipment:

C8 Edge HD + Edge 0.7x Focal Reducer (masked to 150mm F9.3) + Aires 200mm D-ERF + Baader Uv/IR Block Filter
ST80 (masked to 60mm F6.7)
Daystar Quark Chromosphere
ASI174MM + 0.5x Focal Reducer

Conditions:

Very best,

[souls33k3r]

By God that looks amazing.

Does EdgeHD 8 (with reducer) cover the full disk of the sun? or was that image taken with a separate scope?

[Startinez]

Those are absolutely awesome, kudos!

[Highburymark]

Stunning - thanks for posting. 

[Pig]

Excellent images ☀️

[MalVeauX]

1 hour ago, souls33k3r said:

Does EdgeHD 8 (with reducer) cover the full disk of the sun? or was that image taken with a separate scope?

Hi,

The Edge with the reducer and the Quark (internal telecentric 4.2x amplifier) has a very narrow field of view which is what I used for the larger resolution and larger image scales that you see above. The full disc was done with the ST80 refractor, masked to 60mm next to it, with it's much shorter focal length and smaller image scale that allowed me to do a full disc, however, my full disc was 4 images in a mosaic to even do that (again the Quark has an internal 4.2x telecentric amplifier which makes the imaging scale larger, it's needed for the etalon's performance).

Very best,

[Davey-T]

Nicely done Martin, got a couple of vid's of it earlier today just running them through AS.

Dave

[tooth_dr]

Fabulous imaging. 

[David Smith]

Wow

[Pete Presland]

Cracking set of images, particularly the superb prom capture!