• Disk view of the sun with a large prominence of floating gases on the upper right quadrant of the disk and a phage highlighted in yellow in the bottom center half.
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    This image of the Sun was taken on July 25, 2012 at 12:50 pm, shortly before the Observatory opened for public observing.

    The image is taken with a hydrogen-alpha camera, which only lets through a particular color of red light which reveals features of the atmosphere of the Sun.

    The most notable feature that day, which persisted for days, was a giant prominence on the upper left edge of the Sun's disk.  The arch of plasma stands about five to ten times as tall as the Earth.  The plasma streams above the Sun along magnetic "highways."

    Telescope: Lunt 100mm Hydrogen-alpha

    Camera: Lumenera SkyNYX 2-2M

  • Disk view of the sun with a large prominence of floating gases on the upper right quadrant of the disk and a phage highlighted in yellow in the bottom center half.

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July 25, 2012

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Emily Berkson

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WEB12558-2012

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