Category: prominence

White Light and H-Alpha Sun from Polaris Observatory

White Light Sun - February 18, 2012
White Light Sun – February 18, 2012

Dear Asod,

I send you hereby my sketch made this Saturday at Polaris Observatory, Hungary. I used a 114/900 Skywatcher with Baader solar filter for white light sketch and a Lunt 35 for the H-alpha sketch.
The most intersting part is a solar prominence on the northern edge, which is was a very 3D something, biting in the sun-disk.

Equipments used: 114/900 SW (100x) & Lunt 35/400 H-alpha
Date: 18th February 2012, UT: 10:40 (white light) and 11:20 (H-alpha)
Place: Hungary, Budapest, Polaris Observatory
Media: graphite pencil used on white paper

Clear skies,
Judit

Full Disc H-Alpha – April 22, 2013

H-Alpha Sun - April 22, 2013
H-Alpha Sun – April 22, 2013

Object Name: Sun
Object Type: Star
Location: Deventer, The Netherlands
Date: April 22, 2013
Media: White pastel pencil on black paper, colorized and mirror reversed with Photoshop

Sunny weather + long lunch break = solar observing!
This afternoon I took 30 minutes to sketch the Sun in h-alpha. It’s been so long since my last solar sketch, I even had to search for the pastels. I made a full disk sketch, the active region AR1726 was large enough so see in detail even at low magnifications. For this sketch I used a 22mm LVW (32x) in my 70mm h-alpha telescope.

Kind regards,
Roel Weijenberg
www.roelblog.nl

H-Alpha Sun – April 1, 2013

H-Alpha Sun - April 1, 2013
H-Alpha Sun – April 1, 2013

Working with different gray pastel pencils works fine on the Moon. I tried the same technique on the Sun and was quite happy with the result. Hope you like it too.

Clear skies

Jef De Wit

Object: Sun

Location: Hove, Belgium (51°09’ N 4°28’ E)

Date and time: 1 April 2013, around 9.30 UT

Equipment: Lunt LS35T

Eyepiece: 13mm Nagler T6 (31x)

Medium: white, gray and black pastel pencils on black paper, scanned, colored with Paint Shop Pro, text added with Paint

H-Alpha Sun – March 3, 2013

H-Alpha Sun - March 3, 2013
H-Alpha Sun – March 3, 2013

Dear Asod,

Please find attached one of my latest sketches made of the Sun with my Luns LS35 H-Alpha telescope.
We had a lot of cloudy days so far this year, with only a few opportunities to go out and do any kind of observations, but finally the sun was shining and obviously I was sketching! J

Place: Budapest, Hungary

Date: 3rd March 2013

Equipment: 35/400 Lunt LS35T (H-alpha)

Object: Sun

Media: Graphite pencil used on white paper

Clear skies,
Judit

dr. Hannák Judit

Email: hannak.judit@gmail.com

Web: http://egmesek.blogspot.com

H-Alpha Sun – January 23, 2013

H-Alpha Sun - January 23, 2013
H-Alpha Sun – January 23, 2013

Hello,

I send you my latest h-alpha-sundrawing from 23.01.2013. I send you the positive and the negative version of my drawing.

Object Name: Sun
Object Type: Star
Location: Freising-Lerchenfeld, Bavaria, Germany
Date: January 23, 2013
Media: graphite pencil, knife, digital tools (Minolta Dimage Z2 Camera)
Time: 13:45 – 15:00 MEZ

Telescope: Coronado PST (40/400mm)
Ocular: 9mm SW

I use a drawing pattern with lightgray sun. I draw the prominences, sunspots and filaments with graphite pencil. For the active regions and flares i use the knife to scrape the gray color off. On this away I can hold finest details.

You can find more of my sundrawings on my website: www.dersonnenzeichner.de

Kind regards,

Michael Wendl

H-Alpha Sun - January 23, 2013 - Inverted
H-Alpha Sun – January 23, 2013 – Inverted

Monster Prominence

Solar Prominence - July 27, 2012
Solar Prominence - July 27, 2012

Object Name: Prominence
Object Type: Large plasma eruption on the solar surface
Location: Deventer, The Netherlands
Date: July 27, 2012
Media: White pastel pencil on black paper

This morning I aimed my 70mm solar telescope at the sun and I almost got blown away by what I saw. I GIANT prominence on the north eastern limb. I hovered above the surface like a huge dragon. I made a sketch with white pastels on black paper, color added and orientation-flip with Photoshop.

Clear skies!

Roel Weijenberg,
Deventer, The Netherlands
www.roelblog.nl

The Sun of november the 7th

H-Alpha Sun - November 7, 2012
H-Alpha Sun - November 7, 2012

Object Name (Sun)
Object Type (H alpha regio…)
Location (Rocbaron in Provence – France)
Date (2012 Nov 7th)
Media (graphite pencil for the prominences, pastel on white paper for the solar texture, Paint.net as digital tool)
Scope My new Lunt LS35THa/B600 on motorized EQ3 mount with 10mm eyepiece.

I made a pastel texture on CàGrain Canson white paper to imitate the solar surface, and I sketched the proeminences on another paper with graphite pencil. Then I combine both digitalized sketches via Paint.net respecting the 3 bright areas. I cheat a little bit regarding the color pushing my sketch to orange which is maybe more convenient for the contrasts.

Clear sky to you all !

Michel Deconinck
http://www.aquarellia.com