Super Gigantic Solar Prominence shooting off the Sun from 9/26/2009

On the 26th of September 2009 I was watching the sun and found this Huge Prom shooting off the surface. It went up and fell in the course of a few hours and was constantly shedding plasma. This is the largest I have ever seen.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Prominence
• solar
• h-alpha
• sun
• system

[Edsan91]

Just amazing! I never knew we could see the sun like this! I knew we could see it with a filter but wow! this is amazing! Do you think they sell C8 H-Alpha filters? And the other kind like in your other videos to see sunspots? Cause I want to get one!

[armicheal]

@Edsan91

They do. But I would worry about my secondary getting heated if you used a full aperture. There is a company called Thousand Oaks that sells H-alpha solar filters for SCT telescopes. Also if you get an adapter you can use the brand I do called Coronado. Coronado is much more expensive but has a better filter. If your on a budget astromart-dot-com is a good place to find used filters.

[Mateyhv1]

Impressive images! Coronado 90 mm is a great scope and the CG5 seems to be dead steady. Thanks for sharing!!!

[armicheal]

@Mateyhv1

Hi, I've done some work to it recently and "super charged" it with teflon bearings and a different synthetic lubrication called "super lube". These two things make it work really well. It still shakes but not near as much as it used to.

[NArkWTikA]

very good and magical video and now imagine that all that light sphere is made from iron.. yes iron! u can check also some videos here to see how phasmatoscope analyzes the sun,it is showing it whole green. Green color in stars = much iron in them.

[Basard100]

Hey, how do you put your animations together? I've been stacking each video, then loading each frame into gimp, and aligning them manually and saving as a .gif. I know there's gotta be an easier way, but haven't found it yet.

Yours are all so perfect!

[Edsan91]

@armicheal AH I see. I believe thousand oaks is a place Near Were I live! I bought my SCT dew shield there! Thanks for the info! I would pay that much to see it like in your video!

[crazyjorge2111]

@armicheal nevermind, I read your profile. Incredible stuff. I might get into this hobby.

[crazyjorge2111]

@armicheal that's amazing! it looks as if it were shot from space. How do you go about filming this?

[armicheal]

@crazyjorge2111

Yep, its the sun alright. This is a pretty mild prom compared to some of the others I've seen since I've been shooting them. It is several times larger than Earth.