From prominence to filaprom - 18 August 2021.

[Hughsie]

The large prominence we have been imaging on the North East limb these last few days has, due to the rotation of the Sun, moved on to the disc and is a now a filaprom. AR12858 is positioned towards the centre of the disc N12E03 made up of 6 small spots and classified Cro.

I had a brief window between clouds and was very lucky to catch the image below with a Lunt 60mm THa/B1200CPT double stacked, ZWO ASI 174mm with tilt adapter and a 3x Altair Astro Barlow. 200 from 1,000 frames stacked, inverted in ImPPG and finished in PixInsight.

 

 

Edited August 18, 2021 by Hughsie

[TakMan]

That’s a lovely capture and I salute your choice of colour palette!

My solar gear has now been removed from the mount and replaced with the deep sky imaging rig, but the ‘Solar Astronomy’ book that you’ve all been raving about turned up yesterday, so I’ll be taking that to Wales next week as my holiday reading  - hope to pick up some useful processing tips (still have some old data on the SSD that can be utilised for experiments!)

Clear skies….

Damian

[Hughsie]

Hi Damian, thank you for your comments.

The solar book is a great read. Some parts are highly technical, however, there is some really good ideas and tips within it. The processing section is brilliant plus there is a section on info available on the tinternet. Enjoy the read.

[TakMan]

Thanks. Yes, I saw your positive comments with regards to processing and capture techniques after getting the book…

I should have added to my first post that your colour choice has really emphasised that filaprom quite nicely - I shall have to find something similar in my own data to try and replicate it!

D

[Rusted]

What a superb image! Congratulations! 

[Pete Presland]

Fine looking capture!