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Sun in H-alpha 3pm BST 02/04/16

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow & slimline T-ring attached to a Canon 1100D

 

Shot through quite a lot thin high level cloud.

ISO-800 1/60 second exposure

324 images shot and the best 50% stacked using Autostakkert! 2. Resulting stacked image was processed using Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS2, Focus Magic and Faststone Image Viewer

 

I over exposed the photos so the area which suffers from the "spotlight" effect you usually get with this telescope has completely blown out, leaving most of the disc featureless. Howerver, I was lucky enough that the only active region currently visible was just outside the area that I over exposed and these 2 huge prominences came out ok

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Uploaded on April 2, 2016