Our Srar

Our Star
Its image is mesmerizing - out of this world - through a solar telescope...
A star full of life, willing to talk to you, sometimes through its carefree fairies (prominences), dancing at the disk limbs or its black halos (sun spots) and serpentine figures (filaments), crawling on its surface making any observer gazing at them in awe...

A fascinating spectacle changing every day without repeating the magic of the previous day...
This is what makes it a unique, worth observing celestial object by amateur and professional astronomers alike....

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Peter Desypris

Hydrogen-alpha & White Light Solar imaging

Monday, June 29, 2009

Cumulonimbus incus...EPOD for August 5, 2009


No, this case is not about a Nuclear Cloud...but a real Cloud of todays storm over Cyclades-Greece...luckily not above Syros...(island of Syros)
A sight that cannot be described...unless one looks and become amazed by natures and our planets' beauty...
You can see at the bottom left,the island of Myconos...at the eastern orizon of my observatory...where i captured that incredible image.
I have never seen such a symmetrical “Cumulonimbus incus!”The freezing level is shown perfect...
I took that image with a Canon Power Shot A530 on tripod..
A cumulonimbus incus (Latin incus, "anvil") is a cumulonimbus cloud which has reached the level of stratospheric stability and has formed the characteristic flat, anvil-top shape. It can cause a supercell and then a tornado
A mature cumulonimbus incus is definitely the "King of Clouds", a mighty mountain of moisture often considerably taller than Mount Everest, and sometimes reaching 60,000 feet in tropical and subtropical areas.

25-06-2009
Island of Syros
Greece

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