H-Alpha Sun - June 29, 2012

Solar Disk with Prominence

H-Alpha Sun - June 29, 2012
H-Alpha Sun - June 29, 2012

Object Name: Sun
Object Type : Full disk
Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: June 29th 2012
Media: Red pastel on black paper, Photoshop CS3

This is my first sketch of the sun in H-alpha using my new solar scope Lunt LS60THa. The Lunt Zoom eyepiece, 7.2 – 21.5 mm, was used. Seeing was 3/5.

Jean Barbeau

5 thoughts on “Solar Disk with Prominence”

  1. Jean,

    This is very striking. I could only think “Wow” when I first saw it!

    Thia

  2. Jean,
    what a beauty! This is pure art..
    Can you describe how you did it, and what you used for the sketch?
    I like this very much, this is almost better then the real thing 🙂
    /Erik (Belgium)

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