Sun in HAlpha
With Lunt LS100THa 
Uploaded 4/2/17

Daily Report
For Sunday, April 2, 2017
 
 After
            many weeks of a totally blank solar disk, the Sun reawakens and
            produced several very nice active regions!
 
Images below are 1290 wide and non clickable
 

            
 Halpha:

            
Lets
            start with the full disk shot. While the large group in the center
            resembles a huge bar magnet, the region on the right limb (going
            off the disk) is currently flaring. On the left is a minor group
            that is still developing.

            


            
Increasing
            the exposure and gamma, we see now the proms along the limb.
            The overexposed disk of the sun has been masked out as to not
            detract from the faint limb features:

            


            
Zooming
            in with the 3x Klee Barlow, we can see the massive group in the
            center has huge magnetic field lines joining both spots.

            


            
The
            flaring pair of spots on the following limb has spectacular 3D
            detail.

            


            
Finally,
            the small group coming onto the disk has its interests as well.

            


            
Here
            are some of the proms along the limb with the close up Barlow.

            


            
 

            



Instruments:  Lunt LS100THa Halpha
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200
Camera:  DMK 51
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 7/10, Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature: 45F
Processing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS2

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