Two day sequence.

[ollypenrice]

Brilliant weather here so lots of solar fun. Here is a sequence of 5 images spanning yesterday and today . The sudden appearance of the 'tail' on one prom was incredible.

You can see the full size image on my gallery at http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/The-Sun/14803611_fcZbm#1164306906_EPW46

Cheers,

Olly

[naked"I"]

very very good pictures Olly, the detail is amazing.

Which filter and scope did you use?

Dave

[ollypenrice]

very very good pictures Olly, the detail is amazing.

Which filter and scope did you use?

Dave

Thanks Dave,

Lunt LS60/B1200 dedicated Ha solar scope and DMK21 camera.

Olly

[Merlin66]

Olly,

Looks like you're quickly getting the hang of this solar imaging; if you collect some more of these shots you'll have to do an animation showing the movement and growth of the sunspots and proms!!

[Tim]

Very nice Olly, you are having the high pressure we have enjoyed for a couple of days

Anybody got any idea on the formation of those tails? I have seen them myself. I just wonder what drives the stuff in that direction???

[ollypenrice]

Tim, since there is a little tip rising from the disc to 'meet' the end of the tail I suspect that the gasses are following a magnetic field line, but I don't know. In the one barlowed shot that I got of the mid day phase of the tail you can just see a connection back to the disc. The larger image on my smugmug site shows it better.

Olly

[Jonobiwan]

These are amazing!!! If only I had the kit to get these pics!

Well done

[johnrt]

Brilliant Olly!

[sheri_barri]

Very nice sequence Olly! I think you have taken to this solar observing obsession ;-) Lovely technique on colouring the proms. How did you get the 'flame' colouration? DO you us PS Hue Adjustment or another technique in colourising?

[ollypenrice]

Most kind of you Sherri. I wrote a Ps action to record a Curves routine in RGB mode. It just involves lifting red, dropping blue, and manipulating green to fine tune. However, I found I could not get there in one iteration so I went round again doing basically the same things. I was always careful not to clip even the blue for fear of creating flat spots.

I don't find the one-click action always gives the same result so I fine tune it in curves each time. I do separate exposures for the proms but don't colourize till the image is flattened.

The French don't seem to go for my colours on the sun but I like it to look hot and blazing with energy. Maybe I'm a bit too gaudy though!!

Olly

[Mick Smith]

Really great pics of the sun. In my opinion you don't see many pics of the sun.

Nice work.

[Wobbly Bob]

Good stuff Olly. Noted the extra spot appearing from the third image onward.

[Rick88]

Wow, they are great!

Well done!

[Technobill]

Nicely Done Olly,

I too prefer the hot look for the solar imaging

Bill D

[Horus]

Those pics are amazing Olly , well done