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

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Prominence

A strand of relatively cool (about 10,000 K) gas in the solar corona seen as a bright structure above the Sun's limb against the blackness of space. When the same feature is seen dark in projection against the solar disk it is called a filament. Prominences come in two broad classes: active and quiescent(including quiet region filaments and active region filaments). An active prominence changes in appearance over a few minutes and involves high-speed material motion of up to 2,000 km/s. Active prominences are associated with sunspots and solar flares, can last up to several hours, and take the form of loop prominences, sprays, and surges. Cooler material flowing back from prominences may be seen as coronal rain.

LUNT LS60THa/B600/LS50FHa DS
DMK31AU03.AS at f/25

2010-09-16
Island of Syros
Greece

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