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[rigel123]

Just a wonderful morning despite cirrus clouds playing games with me again.  Seeing was good, I didn't even have to tweak my tuning when I got the sun centered, and I got a nice, thick prom really putting on a show!  I called this the Hula-Hoop prom due to the bit of plasma spinning around the static pillar prom.  I don't think I've ever seen this action before.  I've seen a number of tornadic, spinning proms, but this is the first where a ring of plasma appears to spin around the central pillar.  I caught 2 hours before the clouds made it really dark, and Pixinsight did an amazing job of balancing the histograms near the end of the animation so I didn't have to cut it short.

 

Lunt LS60T DS/Saturn-M SQR/Meade 2X Barlow

 

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Link to Astrobin

[sheath]

In the animation it looks like the plasma surrounding the vertical spire is spinning around it.  Like it is a tornado. 

Really cool stuff!  Thanks for sharing. 

[Foc]

A bit like prom practice for a Maypole dance!
Really interesting, and very well caught, though I struggle to imagine the mechanism involved.

[rigel123]

Thanks Scott and Foc!  Indeed it was as interesting a prom as I have seen in a long time.

[gstrumol]

Extremely   animation  

[rigel123]

Thanks Gary!

[Jim Waters]

Great solar animation and images rigel123  

[rigel123]

Thanks Jim!

[soldatispace]

Very nice animation! Congratulations!

[rigel123]

Very nice animation! Congratulations!

Thanks!

[LarryAlvarez]

Excellent work! 

[rigel123]

Thanks Larry!

[steveward53]

Congratulations on the Astrobin IOTD Warren ... 

[rigel123]

Congratulations on the Astrobin IOTD Warren ... 

Thanks Steve, it was a nice surprise!