Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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I had a nice, sunny Sunday with good-to-average seeing.

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Not much was happening in these ARs during this capture (30 s intervals, 1:32 h total):

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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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I started in the morning with the big prominence, it was calm enough back then (30 s intervals, 1:00 h total):

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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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...but a few hours later (I think it was the same one - it appears this way in the GONG archive) it became a bit more lively (same speed, 1:04 h total):

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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Active regions in white light (30 s intervals, 0:34 h):

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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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A bit disappointing, I was counting on more pore movement, like in this animation from a few years back:

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And finally — my first CaK animation (30 s intervals, 0:58 h total):

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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Interesting little sparks in the lower sunspot, but according to NOAA there were no flares there at the time.



Everything captured with PGR Chameleon 3 mono (ICX445), processed with Stackistry, AviStack 2, ImPPG & GIMP.

Hα: 90/660 mm refractor + Lunt 50 etalon, Barlow 1.6x.
CaK: 90/660 mm refractor + Lunt CaK B600 module, PowerMate 2.5x.
WL: SW Mak 127, Baader Astrosolar ND 3.8 + Solar Continuum filter.


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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Fabulous work !

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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Great job!
In the calcium line, everything is very dynamic.
Most of all, I liked the second animation with prominences.


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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Amazing work, that's a great presentation.

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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Great job.


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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Great set!!! You should try stopping the scope down to 60mm for the CaK, will sharpen these up considerably.


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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Wow!! what a delight for the senses, I think the prom animations are my favourite :bow :hamster:

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Re: Swirling prominence and other animations from Sunday

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Excellent animation ...


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