The sun is VERY active right now. If you still have your eclipse glasses, look at the sun, you may be able to see a chain of giant sunspots.
This picture is in hydrogen alpha so you won’t be able to see this. But some of the sunspots are creating those giant plumes of plasma coming off the surface of the earth. Each one of those are multiple times the size of the earth!I have a full walkthrough on how to capture and process h-alpha solar images here if anyone’s curious: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrKCVU6luHY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrKCVU6luHY)
Equipment used:
* Telescope: Lunt 40
* Camera: QHY5-III 178m
* Mount: SkyWatcher SolarQuest
* Capture Software: FireCapture
* Processing Software: Stacked in AutoStakkert!4, Curves in IMPPG, and colorized in Photoshop
The big smooth spot near the middle is because my Etalon needed a tiny bit more adjusting but I couldn’t see it during capture. looked fine to me but stacking and processing exacerbated the region.
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The sun is VERY active right now. If you still have your eclipse glasses, look at the sun, you may be able to see a chain of giant sunspots.
This picture is in hydrogen alpha so you won’t be able to see this. But some of the sunspots are creating those giant plumes of plasma coming off the surface of the earth. Each one of those are multiple times the size of the earth!I have a full walkthrough on how to capture and process h-alpha solar images here if anyone’s curious: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrKCVU6luHY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrKCVU6luHY)
Equipment used:
* Telescope: Lunt 40
* Camera: QHY5-III 178m
* Mount: SkyWatcher SolarQuest
* Capture Software: FireCapture
* Processing Software: Stacked in AutoStakkert!4, Curves in IMPPG, and colorized in Photoshop
The big smooth spot near the middle is because my Etalon needed a tiny bit more adjusting but I couldn’t see it during capture. looked fine to me but stacking and processing exacerbated the region.