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

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Spectacular prominence on the sun, June 30, 2011

Paradoxically, prominences are cooler than the surrounding atmosphere. They are columns of sun-stuff trapped and held up in the magnetic fields above the solar surface. The trapped plasma cools, recombines into hydrogen atoms and then emits visible light to show up as a prominence. The glowing gas twists and swirls in the sway of the magnetic fields and can change its appearance from minute to minute


LUNT LS60THa with B1200
LS50FHa DS
DMK31AU03.AS
Barlow 2X CEMAX & UV/IR cut Filter
on LX 200 8" ACF

Lucam Recorder-Registax 6

2011-06-30
Island of Syros
Greece
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