Sun in Hydrogen Alpha

With Coronado PST

Uploaded 7/3/11

 The Sun was quite active again today, producing and Halpha flaring region, and some stunning prominences. It is quite rare to get the chance to shoot such a brilliant area on the sun, with the seeing good enough to allow the new Registax 6 to once again lock onto the granulation for alignment. Here is todays shots: 

A filament appears directly above 
the flaring region.  Im putting in this image
to show the dim fur of spicules around the
edge of the sun, and the relative brightness
of the proms.

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With the prom data brightened you can
now clearly see the complexity of the
structures.

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With a 5x barlow instead of the usual
2x, more detail can be seen in the proms.

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Here you can see in this 5x barlow image
the flaring region and the filament.

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On the other side of the sun, more delicate
proms can be seen, and a rather bland disk.

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Just above the last frame, the sun improves
a bit, with a nice tree like prom on the edge.

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Instrument:  Coronado PST 40mm
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200
Camera:  DMK 1024
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature: 75F
Processing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS3
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