sun interesting (Blue Mountains)

... for a change!

William posted a quick email about interesting prominences along the solar disk. I continued reading my email and enjoying some coffee when all of a sudden it hit me. Hey! Let's verify it. Popped into the NASA SOHO site and BAM! Off to the GBO. I knew we had to track the Sun with the C14.

I boogied out to the observatory, opened the roof, attached the Coronado hydrogen-alpha filtering equipment to the Tele Vue refractor, and popped in the 26mm eyepiece.

Fired up the mount and computer and headed to the Sun.

(I could not get it to focus at first. But we tricked it out.)

Wow!

Three distinct prominences, different parts of the Sun. The most interesting was a complex with fan-shaped ejection beside several low coils. Fascinating.

Terry was very interested as well and made several sketches.