Monday, February 27, 2012

Full disk H-alpha image for 02/26/2012


Prominences are visible on the left limb of the sun. A couple of darker filaments are visible on the disk.  Filaments are prominences seen edge on.  The image below is processed to show more disk detail:

The lighter spot to the lower right is an area outside of the "sweet spot" of the filter.

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