Giant Prom, March 19.

[ollypenrice]

Sorry the image is so bad but this was fading fast so I grabbed a file as fast as I could. By the time I had got the settings and focus right it was all but gone. At the EP it was astounding, by far the biggest we have seen here. Pity I was on DIY duty this morning putting a floor in the stable to make Monique a studio or I'd have got to it earlier!

Olly

[barkis]

That's a biggie for sure Olly. Glad you got a shot of it, I'm not sure how the UK's cloud cover today will have spoiled things for Solar imagers here.

Ron.

[billinforres]

I've had a PST since 2005 and that is the biggest prom I have seen.

Tried to image it with my Nikon 950 but it was too hazy to get anything near to the right focus.

Bill

[Andrew*]

Shame I missed this one - looks fantastic.

Any idea what the orientation is on your image? I would think it was the southwestern one...

Andrew

[mattifor]

Hi Olly

great shot.

I tried to get it also still havnt mastered the camera.

as you can see it was half the height when I managed to get a picture.

Ivor

[brianb]

Wow!

I thought it might blow ... & the clouds came across so there was obviously some action to hide ?8-/

[mattifor]

Sorry wrong one that was the one at the top NW

this was the one at SE

[Mark at Beaufort]

Olly. I noticed that this prom are getting rather good at about 9.30am this morning. It had started to arch- over and looked very impressive. Viewed it for about 30 minutes. There was also another prom building up in the Northern hemisphere.

Mark

[Adz]

Thanks for the images, keep them coming! How astonishing.

[King]

Excellent capture! I too was out solar imaging - a little before that and the prominences were as attached:

[mikeknowle]

Well done for capturing it. Spaceweather.com reported it as 'a monstrous filament of magnetism and hot plasma blasted off the sun's southwestern limb today, March 19th, at around 1200 UT. Many amateur astronomers in Europe witnessed the blast and said it was the biggest one they'd ever seen.'

And that photo really is a beaut.!

[Tim]

Excellent Olly. I took my PST by chance into work, but had forgotten the fitting for the mount. I handheld the PST to get a quick preview early this morning, and saw that large bubble forming, thinking it worth an extra look I shot home in record time for the missing bits and mounted the PST.

Watching that develop and then expand like crazy was just jaw dropping, and I was able to share the views with several staff members and customers too.

I was able to follow it for quite some time after the stage shown in your pic, until it finally petered out to nothing.

All that following a completely clear night, I reckon its trying to make up for the lousy winter season!!!!

Cheers

Tim

[Rossco72]

looks like it was pretty amazing Olly

Can't wait for my solar scope to arrive courtesy of Lunt and Ian King....

[ollypenrice]

looks like it was pretty amazing Olly

Can't wait for my solar scope to arrive courtesy of Lunt and Ian King....

Aha, I think you will be pleased!

Olly

[armicheal]

Wow, that's definitely one amazing prom. You did a good job capturing the action at just the right time. Clear Skyz,