H-ALPHA SOLAR IMAGES
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     Large Prominence on NE limb 18:37UT
11-6-08  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum 0.1 Ang. H-Alpha test filter & custom 5.71x telecentric.  Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 CCD camera.  Image acquisition with LuCam Recorder;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 4.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


      Active Region 11005   18:40UT
10-15-08  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter & custom 5.71x telecentric.  DMK 21AU04 CCD camera.  Image acquisition with LuCam Recorder;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 4.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


      Single 8 bit avi high resolution exposure for both prominences on  limb and chromosphere detail on disk.
8-11-08  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter & custom 5.71x telecentric.  Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 CCD camera.  Image acquisition with LuCam Recorder;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 4.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


     Surge on western limb brightening and dimming  throughout the day.  Note the dramatic change in only 22 minutes.
3-13-07  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter & custom 5.71x telecentric.  Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 CCD camera @ f/35.  Image acquisition with LuCam Recorder;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 4.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


     Coronal cloud prominences on eastern limb.
3-13-07  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter & custom 5.71x telecentric.  Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 CCD camera with .5 focal reducer.  Image acquisition with LuCam Recorder;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 4.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


      Mercury transiting the sun  20 mins. after prominence transit image below.  Sunspot in AR0923 at top left.
Published in the March, 2007 issue of  Sky and Telescope  magazine.
11-8-06  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter & custom 5.71x telecentric.  Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 CCD camera at full pixel array.  Image acquisition with LuCam Recorder;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 3.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


      A rare transit by Mercury of a prominence approx. 5 mins before 1st contact.
Thus far, I've only been able to find one other occurrence where either of the two inter planets were ever  seen off of the sun's limb silhouetted by a prominence.  This occurred during the Mercury transit on May 9, 1970.
11-8-06  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter & custom 5.71x telecentric.  Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 CCD camera with .63 focal reducer.  Image acquisition with LuCam Recorder;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 3.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


      Large sweeping, curled prominence's beauty masks the eruptive forces that created it.
9-21-06  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter & custom 5.71x telecentric.  Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 CCD camera with .63 focal reducer.  Image acquisition with LuCam Recorder;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 3.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


       Sunspot in AR0904 reappearing on eastern limb after rotating around the far side of the sun.
9-8-06  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter & custom 5.71x telecentric.  Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 CCD camera with .63 focal reducer.  Image acquisition with LuCam Recorder;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 3.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


      Sunspot in AR0905  with reversed polarity.
8-25-06  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter.  Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 CCD camera with .5 focal reducer.  Image acquisition with K3CCDTools;  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 3.0; final processing with Photoshop CS. 


      Close up of Prominences
5-24-06  Celestron/Vixon 4" fluorite refractor with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter.  Atik  1HS-II CCD camera @ f/45.  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 3.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.


     Looped Prominence on northeastern limb.
4-13-06  Tak Sky 90 with Solar Spectrum .2 Ang. H-Alpha filter.  Atik  1HS-II CCD camera with .5 focal reducer.  Alignment and Stacking with Registax 3.0; final processing with Photoshop CS.  For a high resolution image without the .5 focal reducer, click here.



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