Sun 2 Oct in H-alpha

[sheri_barri]

These were taken in the very late in the afternoon with the sun just about ready to dip below the tree line. The skies were only starting to clear and the turbulent atmosphere made the seeing very poor.

Four sunspot groups and and two enormous filament were visible. The close ups suffer significantly from the poor seeing conditions and unfortunately are a bit soft in focus but the features are impressive nonetheless.

Thank you for looking.

[sheri_barri]

Correction... these were taken the 18 October..... Slight typo!

[RobH]

Those filaments are enormous!

Great shots Sheri, especially with the sun very low down.

Cheers

Rob

[sheri_barri]

Cheers Rob!

Getting used to having loads of summer sunshine now racing to catch the last of the sun at an earlier hour as winter is coming this far north.,..

[NickH]

It's uch trickier in the winter for sure, so nice shot!