giant solar cloud floats over the sun

As seen through my Coronado PST in red hydrogen light, a giant detached solar prominence floats above the sun's limb with seemingly tiny planet earth shown to same scale!

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Science & Technology

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• sun
• solar
• prominence
• cloud
• hydrogen
• light
• pst
• red
• earth
• coronado
• backyard

[sheepbane]

What are you using to capture the image? I have a PST as well and my cell phone isn't doing the trick

[nytecam]

@sheepbane I used my old Fuji E550 pocket digicam on zoom and auto-mode video - phone cams are not the best to hold to the scope eyepiece!

[nytecam]

Hi - just a general reply to the ?? raised. The sun is very dynamic on a timescale of hours like this *cloud* which either falls back onto the sun or disperses into space. If seen on the *edge of the sun* [rather than the centre] then its motion will be at 90 degrees to earth and not come our way - sleep safe - our ionosphere and atmosphere protect us and all plants and animals too and have done so for eons ;-)

[GWOVMR]

When this did happen, it did have an auroral effect on the shortwave radio bands

and you did good work to capture it

[patmac573]

is it headed our way?

[hoplapigen]

A spaceship from another planet

[noxep]

Great movie :)

Can you please tell me how long was this visible and when did it occured?

Thank you.

Cheers

[tacticalbattledroid]

@TheSpaceNews thanks for replying i did think that was the case but it just goes to show how pethetic humans are in the scheme of things ';-)

[TheSpaceNews]

@tacticalbattledroid If a prominence is typically released into space, it spreads out and diffuses as it travels. If and when it reaches Earth, the particles of radiation interact with gases in the atmosphere to create the auroras. In addition, if intense enough, the radiation can damage technology in space or on Earth, and people in high-flying aircrafts.

[tacticalbattledroid]

wow thats amazing but what would happen if that was to hit earth ? ';-)