The Sun in Hydrogen Alpha

Full disk image of the solar chromosphere (the layer of plasma that lies between the sun's visible surface (Photosphere) and the Corona (The Sun's upper atmosphere).

 

This image has it all: Spicules: (narrow jet of plasma rising up to 10,000 Km above the chromosphere). One is plainly visible at about the 4 o'clock position in this image.

Filaments: dark thread-like features scattered across the chromosphere;

Sunspots: Cooler (darker) areas;

and finally Prominences: rising 150,000-200,000 Km above the sun.

 

I am still learning the solar anatomy and I am not sure whether to call the massive prominence at the 11 o'clock position a "Prominence" or a "Coronal Mass Ejection" or CME.

 

Lunt LS50THa Hydrogen-alpha telescope @ 350mm and f/7;

Sky Watcher SolarQuest;

ZWO ASI678MM camera;

 

Above average seeing.

 

Imaged from Beckwith Township, ON, Canada

Done