{"id":6347,"date":"2021-09-19T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2021-09-19T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T16:01:08","slug":"sunfun-20210918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/sunfun-20210918\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun in The Sun &#8211; 18th September 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always get excited when an active sunspot approaches the solar limb.<\/p>\n<p>You just never know what delights it will give you using a Hydrogen Alpha setup.<\/p>\n<p>On the morning of the 18th of September it was very clear, so I set up my scope and plugged in the Quark.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the Quark was anywhere near set at the correct temperature, it was quite clear that there was an extremely bright prominence visible on the limb.<br \/>\nYou cannot usually see prominences in this setup, until the Quark is close to reaching its tuned temperature.<br \/>\nSo I quickly realised that this might give some really great results.<\/p>\n<p>All came to temperature and the view was incredible.<br \/>\nUndoubtedly, these were the best views I have ever had with my own equipment.<\/p>\n<p>This was Active 2871 before it rounded the solar limb to move into view from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>I took a few images,\u00a0 a couple of which I have posted below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Images\/2021\/2021-09-18-0850-Web.png\" width=\"553\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just look at that plasma following the lines of the magnetic field around them.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Images\/2021\/Magnetic-Field-Lines-2021-09-18-1013.png\" width=\"552\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While taking a couple of different exposures to make a mosaic to get all the action in one image, I noticed a surge prom starting to develop.<br \/>\nHere is one of the images I took of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Images\/2021\/2021-09-18-1106_2-CapObj_AS_p22_g4_ap139_Drizzle15W-Web.png\" width=\"552\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As things looked extremely active and moving fairly quickly, the impulse to capture an animation of all this going on was now far too strong.<br \/>\nI took loads of images 2 minutes apart, and managed to capture 30 minutes of action before the clouds to end my fun.<br \/>\nI then spent a good few hours processing each image and putting the animation together.<br \/>\nI have added this below.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, there was so, so much going on here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Images\/2021\/Prom-Animation-20210918.gif\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always get excited when an active sunspot approaches the solar limb. You just never know what delights it will give you using a Hydrogen Alpha setup. On the morning of the 18th of September it was very clear, so I set up my scope and plugged in the Quark. Even before the Quark was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Fun in The Sun - 18th September 2021 - Star-Gazing","description":"I always get excited when an active sunspot approaches the solar limb. You just never know what delights it will give you using a Hydrogen Alpha setup. 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