December 29th sun and various proms

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December 29th sun and various proms

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Hello everybody: I was out this morning with the Solarmax 90 DS for a quick session, as this seems to be the last day of good weather this year around here. While the SSM was suggesting good seeing at lower altitude, the Jetstream was definitely very unfriendly. I am the red dot on the map. The sun was showing multiple prominences, but the largest one (on the Western limb) was very faint. I am also posting other proms from the past I reprocessed during this period of low activity of the sun. My favorite is the tall plume prominence I was lucky to image on February 20, 2017.

I wish everybody a Happy New Year and happy imaging in 2019, with clear skies and lots of fun gear to shoot with !

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Re: December 29th sun and various proms

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Hi Franco,

Great prominence images.

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Re: December 29th sun and various proms

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That prom is , indeed, faint but nicely detailed. Great Set ! Franco


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Re: December 29th sun and various proms

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+1 for the large plume prom Franco. Like a ghostly figure waving goodbye. Cheers and happy new year to you!


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Nice prom shots, Franco. I can't wait to get the winter behind us for better conditions. It has been weeks since I last got a chance to image anything because of the weather and the low Sun.

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Thank you Rainer, Mike, Christopher and Stu for your nice comments. Stu: I know how you feel, it has been a month or more for me since the last session.

Franco


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Re: December 29th sun and various proms

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Hi Franco...

Your full disk images came out well, and the proms are nicely detailed. Excellent work!!!

I didn't look at the Jetstream map yesterday but I see why I had such poor seeing too...I'm sitting well inside the northern boundary of the same system :( Hopefully the weather improves and we get some better, more stable skies for observing.

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Very nice done ...


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These look great franco! interesting to see where you are in the world.


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Thank you very much Brian, Maurits and Mark for your positive feedback !

Franco


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Franco:
Very good shots, like the prominences very much.
Best wishes for the comming year.
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Re: December 29th sun and various proms

Post by Montana »

These are fantastic, there really are some amazing proms at the moment, always a good target for photos :bow Your SSM readings are not bad considering, mostly around 1-1.5 which is better than what I could get, pity about the jetstream as we can't do anything with that ;)

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Re: December 29th sun and various proms

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Alexandra, Eric: thank you very much and all the best to you for 2019 !

Franco


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