A large filament's liftoff from the Sun 6th March 2023 - 35min animation

I had seen that a filament was beginning to detach from the Sun on 6th March, and decided to get in to the 38C heat and do some imaging. I took a sequence of 40 frames over 35 minutes in great seeing for my favourite solar timelapse so far. The prominence reaches about 250,000km high (Earth is about the size of the little hovering blob under the prominence's arch). Lots of plasma rain, movement in many directions, and solar wind buffeting around the ragged edge of the filament as the left edge detaches. Much of the remaining material drains down magnetic field lines to the right. So much motion on a big scale!

Skywatcher Evostar 100, Quark CS, ZWO ASI174MM, 40 x 20s, ~2600 frames per capture.