Quick Friday view 17th March 2023

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Quick Friday view 17th March 2023

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Yesterday was a really lucky Friday afternoon, after toiling for 9hrs a day since 2nd January analysing and processing hundreds of images at work, I finished the last one at 2.30pm in the afternoon. After a cheer, I literally ran away from work and got home by 3pm. By 3.30pm we had a flare alert on the phone, I looked up and saw one blue hole coming towards the Sun. I ran outside with the PST and managed to catch an image of the proms. They were incredible!! nothing left of the main flare but some beautiful loops were visible on the eastern limb. I enjoyed them for a moment and then it was all over, back to clouds. What a moment of joy and much better than Champagne for the celebration :)

Image2023-03-17 Halpha Proms 02 f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

Image2023-03-17 Halpha Proms 02 b by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

To see the images a bit bigger you will need to click through to Flickr :)

I'm glad the forum is back to working again, it was a bad frantic Friday night for Stephen :(

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Very nice full discs.


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That sounds awesome. Those short moments can change a boring into a good day, nice catch.


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Prominences like this would deserve good champagne! Nice to see your results, just clouds here again.


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Beautiful prominences session and presentation Alexandra.


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Great shots Alexandra!


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That's a nice reward at the end of the week!

Very nice prom images Alexandra!

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Great catch - a nice reward for finishing your project!

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Thanks everyone :)

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Amazing image! I struggled with the wind, pity to miss good seeing on that incredible torch...


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Finally processed the main disc :)

Image2023-03-17 Halpha Solar disc f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

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Amazing work, Alexandra, really. My images were much much worse on the day, seeing was really bad. Not sure if one is allowed to cross post into other people's thread, would be educational to compare single stack in bad seeing vs double stack in good seeing...


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Alexandra:
A good celebration, you got beautiful images.
Best regards and wish you et al a sunny happy weekend.
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Nice disks Alexandra, It's good to hear you got a break from work and had some quality me time.


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Lovely images Alexandra - a great reward and a well deserved break from work.
Glad you finally got to see all these wonderful proms yourself!!


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Very nice ALexandra!


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Thanks everyone :)

BGazing, absolutely no problem, the more images the merrier :)

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Very nice, indeed, Alexandra. I’m so happy for you that you got to see and image the Sun after your hard slog at work. Beautiful results. :hamster:

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Alexandra,
I was home on Slooh, KSO and GONG when You took these!! We were viewing them at the same time! I am glad you lucked out. I was under clouds and could not use my own equipment.

Hat's off to you. These are beautiful, especially in color!!

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Fantastic images with the PST Alexandra :bow

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