Solar prominences and plage on and near the limb - September 19th and 20th, 2014

H alpha Sun sketches

Solar prominences and plage on and near the limb - September 19th and 20th, 2014
Solar prominences and plage on and near the limb – September 19th and 20th, 2014

Object Name (H alpha Sun )
Object Type (Nice dwarf star)
Location (Artignosc-sur-Verdon, France)
Date (2014/09 – 19 & 20)
Media (graphite pencil, white paper, my digital tool is Paint.net to add colours via layers)
What a bad weather! Even the “day of the night” becomes the “day of the rain”, what a season.
But here around we are not too complaining. For my cloudy friends, I made a couple of solar sketches to prove that the sun still exist !
Both sketches and zooms are done in 30 minutes, at 15:30 UT Sept. 19th and the day after, same period, with my mini-Lunt35T and SWA 10mm EP.
The prominences that rises are damn pretty and clustered around the equator as it should be at the end of a solar cycle.

I wish you all a nice and dark sky !

http://astro.aquarellia.com
Michel Deconinck

4 thoughts on “H alpha Sun sketches”

  1. Great Sun sketch. I saw it for the fist time two days ago through H-alpha telescopes and it was amazing!!
    Thank you for posting it

  2. Michel,

    It is the same on this side of the Atlantic also.
    Pretty funny on proof the sun still exists.
    Stunning solar sketches.

    Frank 🙂

  3. Really amazing Michel ! Yes the Sun is still alive, I saw it last weekend… 😉
    I had the chance to look at it with a Lunt, it was wonderful.
    Thanks for this nice and realistic sketch.
    Jean-Marc (APAM astroclub – Fr)

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