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The sun on Jan. 22, 2006

A small (class B) flare appeared in region 10848 as I was focusing the camera to take the h-alpha images. It didn’t stay bright for long. It totally faded away in 20 minutes. An interesting tree-shaped prominence was visible on the eastern limb as well. The temperature was 37 deg F with a clear sky, excellent transparency, and good turbulence(6/10). Images were taken with a Solarscope Ltd. Solarview50 h-alpha telescope, Televue 2.5X Powermate, and Canon 300D camera.  Camera was set at 1/400 sec at ASA 400. Stacked 18 frames with Registax3 and then wavelet filtered. Photoshop used to  composite, colorize, and rotate the image.

Image of the sun in h-alpha on Jan 22, 2006.

 The white light sun was interesting for a change! (It has been a while). I count 27 spots in region 10848. Equipment used was a Stellarvue A1010 refractor, baader filter, Televue 2.5X Powermate, and Canon 300D camera (1/250 sec at ASA 400, stack of 18).

White light image of the sun on Jan 22, 2006.

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One Response to “The sun on Jan. 22, 2006”

  1. Peter Tagatac Says:
    January 29th, 2006 at 2:23 pm

    [might be a double post - sorry]

    I’m late to the table - but those are some fantastic photos of our star. I agree with the white light image, real detailed and clear. I’ve yet to see solar prominences, so those appear equally fantastic.

    peter

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