Our Sun in hydrogen alpha!

While the sun may not have any visible sunspots, it is sporting some large and beautiful prominences. This is our Sun captured in the hydrogen alpha wavelength. The photo on the right is inverted to show greater detail.

Lunt 60mm dedicated hydrogen alpha telescope
SolarQuest tracking head on Celestron CPC legs
ZWO asi533 uncooled camera
stacked 14% of 1000 images from a twelve second exposure

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