H-Alpha Sun – April 22, 2012

H-Alpha Sun - April 22, 2012
H-Alpha Sun - April 22, 2012

Object Name: Sun in Ha
Object Type: Full disk solar sketch
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Date: April 22, 2012
Media: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Equipment: Coronado PST/Solarmax 40

Amazing view of the Sun through my Coronado PST/Solarmax 40 DS. Many active regions, filaments, sunspots and a big prominence!! Sketch made in Photoshop CS3.
Greetings from Greece!

Stratos Tsanaktsidis

Active Sun

Sun - April 18, 2012
Sun - April 18, 2012

Hi,

May I present you my last sketch; an object everyone see everyday 🙂

Yesterday, the sun was very active, considering, I could easily see with my binoculars 10X50 three big Sun spots. I was very impressed!

Sun
The nearest star
Québec, Canada
2012-04-18
Graphite pencil on white paper

Louise Racine

H-Alpha Sun – April 6, 2012

H-Alpha Sun - April 6, 2012
H-Alpha Sun - April 6, 2012

Dear Asod,

I send you here my first sketch made with my L35ST Lunt H-alpha
telescope (not the first one with h-alpha telescopes tho).
I used 57x and 80x zoom for sketching.
The most interesting part was this very long filament, which was there
for 3 days constantly and almost in the same size.
The red-orange parts are showing the lighter areas.

Time & Date: 6th April 2012, UT: 9:30 – 10:00
Media: Graphite and colour pencil used on white paper.
Equipment: 35/400 Lunt H-alpha telescope on EQ2 mount.
Place: Budapest, Hungary


dr. Hannák Judit

Sun – November 9, 2011

Sun - November 9, 2011
Sun - November 9, 2011

Hello!
The Sun is my fawourite object to sketch that is why I am sending you this sketch, drawn 9.11.2011 at 12:20, in Ely, England.
I have used my SkyMaster 15×70 binoculars and the foil filter (Seymour Solar) which gives natural looking colors (The Sun is orange).
The conditions that day where cloudy, so I had to be patient waiting for The Sun to reappear from behind the clouds.
I have used graphite pencils and the stamps to draw it on smooth white paper. The drawing is 16 cm( 6,2 inch ) in diameter.

Clear skies

Agnieszka Adamkiewicz

H-Alpha Sun – January 18, 2012

H-Alpha Sun - January 18, 2012
H-Alpha Sun - January 18, 2012
H-Alpha Sun - January 18, 2012
H-Alpha Sun - January 18, 2012

Location: Freising-Lerchenfeld, Bavaria, Germany
Media: graphite pencil, knife, digital tools (Minolta Dimage Z2 Camera)
positiv and negativ
Telescope: Coronado PST (40/400mm)
Ocular: 9mm SW 66°

My webside: www.dersonnenzeichner.de

Kind regards

Michael Wendl

Two Days of Incredible Solar Activity

H-Alpha Sun - November 12 and 14, 2011
H-Alpha Sun - November 12 and 14, 2011

Object type – Huge filament and prominence
Location – Wilp, The Netherlands
Date – November 12 and November 14, 2011
Media – Pastel pencil on black paper, color with Photoshop

The largest prominence and the largest filament I have ever seen, both visible at the same time! It was a fantastic view and I made two sketches of them, two days apart. On November 14, the huge filament blew a large part of itself away from the Sun at the exact moment I was observing, creating a thin candle-like flame above the surface. A remarkable sight. Clearly the Sun is getting more active every month. What it’s got left in its suprise box while creeping towards solar maximum? Can’t wait to find out!

Kind Regards,
Roel Weijenberg
www.roelblog.nl