Sun in HAlpha 
With Lunt LS100THa 
Uploaded 1/3/16

Daily Report
For Sunday, January 3nd, 2016
 
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Images below are 1290 wide and non clickable
 

            
Lets
            start with the full disk shot, obtained by inserting a .5x Antares
            focal reducer in the nose piece of the cameras barrel. The most
            obvious features are the active region on the right, consisting
            of tiny sunspots and bright plage regions. On the left is a huge
            filament, which is a prom seen over the face of the sun.

            


            
A
            better view of the proms can be had by viewing the full disk
            blacked out, similar to a total solar eclipse. Here on the left
            side, we see a fantastic shaped prom jutting out of the solar
            limb. On the right is smaller one.

            


            
3x
            Klee Barlow close up of the features. Here the active region
            comes into focus.

            


            
The
            filament is a monstrous thing, and will be a sight to see if
            it survives to be seen on the limb in a few days.

            


            
The
            big prom is like a cruise ship on the limb of the Sun!

            


            
Seeing
            was starting to get bad, but this close up of the other prom
            shows some good details.

            



Instruments:  Lunt LS100THa Halpha
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200
Camera:  DMK 51 (1600 x 1200)
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 1/5, Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature: 45F
Processing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS2

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