Solar Prominences
By Erika Rix
Seeing today was terrible and I tried my best to hang in there for a few good moments to see anything on the other half of the Sun. There was a small prominence, but I just wasn’t able to catch the fainter large one that others were able to see.
I did have some nice views by playing with the Etalon. There were some hairline filaments, or perhaps just darkened lines, scattered about on the disk. And three areas of proms on the eastern half of the Sun can be shown in the sketch.
Sketch done on black Strathmore Artagain paper with Conte’ and Prang white pencils. The graphic on the upper right is from Les’ Tilting Sun program. Some areas blended slightly with fingertip.
Erika,
Excellent composition. Every component compliment every other part. It is easy to see why you made the sketch the way you did and the sketch is wonderful too.
Frank 🙂