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[revans]

Clear skies and good seeing all morning then quite hot in the afternoon.  I did my imaging from about 9am until the sun transited and then spent the rest of the afternoon on the yard and garden.  I took a great many time-lapse animation clips but am only posting the most active prominence animation (58 mins long) together with a whole disk image.  It looks like all of the clips came out about as well as is possible for me at my level of "expertise." Images link to my Astrobin page. 
 

 
Here is the prominence animation:
 

 
Here is a cropped version of the prominence:
 

 
Rick

[rigel123]

Nice animation Rick!  Those are some great floating proms.

[revans]

Nice animation Rick!  Those are some great floating proms.

I haven't seen floating proms before and didn't know what they were called.  I was going to try and look them up tomorrow in Solar Astronomy by Viladrich et al. but didn't know what term they would be under.  They certainly got my attention.  I have some other clips that show long dark oblique filaments erupting into great bright prominences at the edge of the solar limb.  Too many clips to put on Astrobin so I guess they'll sleep on my SSD drive archive.  

 

It was a good day for solar imaging in New England.  After sunset smoke became an issue.   At the moment, I'm imaging M53 and its near partner, the other globular ?5053 with a 60mm f/5 Petzval refractor.  Just something to do...  and doing some binocular observing while that is going on.

 

Rick

[gstrumol]

Nicely done, Ric! 

[rigel123]

I haven't seen floating proms before and didn't know what they were called.  I was going to try and look them up tomorrow in Solar Astronomy by Viladrich et al. but didn't know what term they would be under.  They certainly got my attention.  I have some other clips that show long dark oblique filaments erupting into great bright prominences at the edge of the solar limb.  Too many clips to put on Astrobin so I guess they'll sleep on my SSD drive archive.  

 

It was a good day for solar imaging in New England.  After sunset smoke became an issue.   At the moment, I'm imaging M53 and its near partner, the other globular ?5053 with a 60mm f/5 Petzval refractor.  Just something to do...  and doing some binocular observing while that is going on.

 

Rick

If you look closely at any floating prom you will typically find a very fine connection of material between the “surface” and the prom.  They always show some great action.

[doole]

Fantastic.