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Archive for the ‘flares’ Category
The sun has been in a deep slumber for the past several years, showing very little signs of activity. Lately this sleeping giant has begun its journey towards what could be a very impressive solar max. Over the past view days I have seen countless images of several massive filaments and the activity around sunspot 1092.
Below is an image from solar imager Rick Trommer. Rick captured this impressive image with his LS60THaDS50. The two massive filaments can be seen as two snake like bodies on the right while in the bottom left sunspot 1092 is quietly gliding across the solar disk.
Be sure to keep an eye on sun as things are just starting to get interesting again! Please keep sending in your images!
About Lunt Solar Systems LLC…
Lunt Solar Systems is a manufacturing and sales facility located in Tucson, Arizona. Lunt Solar design, fabricate, assemble, and test solar telescopes and solar filters. Whether you are looking for a dedicated solar telescope or a solar filter for attachment to you own astronomy telescope, we can help. Solar telescopes models start at $499 for an LS35T (telescope) or the only slightly more expensive LS50F (filter), all the way thru the 152T and the 160F. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.
Yesterday (7/28/2010) a massive prominence erupted from the surface of the sun! Images have been appearing all over the web of this massive event.
The images below were shot my amateur astronomer Jim Ferreira with his LS50F and DMK21 camera. “Half a dozen or so very bright, very small spots that brightened and faded in less than a minute,” Ferreira described.
The lower image shows an awesome time laps of the prominence. These images and many more of Jim Ferreira’s work can be seen on his website: Astrophotography by Jim Ferreira
The sun is really starting to show signs of life, a good sign for solar observers! Be sure to check it out and keep sending in your images!
About Lunt Solar Systems LLC…
Lunt Solar Systems is a manufacturing and sales facility located in Tucson, Arizona. Lunt Solar design, fabricate, assemble, and test solar telescopes and solar filters. Whether you are looking for a dedicated solar telescope or a solar filter for attachment to you own astronomy telescope, we can help. Solar telescopes models start at $499 for an LS35T (telescope) or the only slightly more expensive LS50F (filter), all the way thru the 152T and the 160F. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.
H-Alpha is red, Ca-K is blue, and for Jim Ferreira its all a view in black and white. Located in Livermore, California, Jim has been producing high resolution H-Alpha images of the heavens for quite sometime. From deep sky objects to our nearest star, his images bring back the old school feel of simplistic black and white while providing views with remarkable detail!
Photo by Jim Ferreira
While many of his images are moments frozen in time, not all are still! Lately Jim has been dabbling with the art of time laps photography with the aid of his DMK21 video camera. The ability to show massive prominences dancing across the sun is truly something to behold! But how does he capture such images? Currently Jim uses an LS50F attached to him SV102ED refractor, he someday hopes to add an LS75F or LS100F to use for higher magnification images and video while using the LS50F for full disk images.
Jim’s SV102ED with the LS50F and piggy backed white light scope.
Unlike other imagers Jim chooses to image solely in black and white, but why? “I do very little viewing with an eyepiece”, he says. Most if not all of his viewing time takes place at the monitor of his computer. He keeps his images black and white to match what would be seen in the eyepiece. “It’s also kind’a an old school thing”, says Jim. His inspiration for black and white images dates back to his childhood while watching time laps images of solar flares in science class.
Jim continues to produce some amazing images, much of them can be seen on the popular astronomy forum website Cloudy Nights. He also posts all his work including his dramatic night time images on his personal website: Astrophotography by Jim Ferreira. Check it out and keep an eye out as he produces more of his signature black and white images!
Photo by Jim Ferreira
About Lunt Solar Systems LLC…
Lunt Solar Systems is a manufacturing and sales facility located in Tucson, Arizona. Lunt Solar design, fabricate, assemble, and test solar telescopes and solar filters. Whether you are looking for a dedicated solar telescope or a solar filter for attachment to you own astronomy telescope, we can help. Solar telescopes models start at $499 for an LS35T (telescope) or the only slightly more expensive LS50F (filter), all the way thru the 152T and the 160F. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.
Yesterday, amateur astronomer Brian Shelton imaged the sun with his LS152T and what an image it was! The images looks as if you are orbiting the sun itself!
Great job Brian!
Its amazing the images we are getting so please keep sending them in!
About Lunt Solar Systems LLC…
Lunt Solar Systems is a manufacturing and sales facility located in Tucson, Arizona. Lunt Solar design, fabricate, assemble, and test solar telescopes and solar filters. Whether you are looking for a dedicated solar telescope or a solar filter for attachment to you own astronomy telescope, we can help. Solar telescopes models start at $499 for an LS35T (telescope) or the only slightly more expensive LS50F (filter), all the way thru the 152T and the 160F. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.
This past Saturday was the SCAE at Oceanside Photo and Telescope! Thank you to all who came out and saw the Lunt booth!
The event has been given a small write up and some photos in the North County Times. Check it out!: LINK
About Lunt Solar Systems LLC…
Lunt Solar Systems is a manufacturing and sales facility located in Tucson, Arizona. Lunt Solar design, fabricate, assemble, and test solar telescopes and solar filters. Whether you are looking for a dedicated solar telescope or a solar filter for attachment to you own astronomy telescope, we can help. Solar telescopes models start at $499 for an LS35T (telescope) or the only slightly more expensive LS50F (filter), all the way thru the 152T and the 160F. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximu