>This afternoon (@ 2:15 pm to 2:50 pm) I was looking at the
>Sun with my Day Star T Scanner (H-Alpha) about 0.6 a.
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>There were several large prominences. In my field of view
>the image is reversed left to right. On the lower right edge,
>about 4 o'clock, there was a large, thick loop and what looked
>like a prominence near but not yet at the limb. It was a long grayish
>area that looked to be above the H-alpha surface. I was wondering
>if this was a prominence seen from above rather than in profile?
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>There were dark markings on the surface. The surface looked
>very bumpy. The sunspots could be seen along with very bright
>areas near the large sunspot groups. There were also some bright
>areas away from the sunspot groups. One of these light areas was
>like a ">". A little to the right of the large sunspot group in the lower
>middle of the Suns disc there was a long thin black line. I made a
>sketch but need to clean it up a little. My hand drawn circle wasn't
>very round.
To be more clear, some of the bright areas were well away from
the sunspots. One large bright area was shifted a little to the right
of the two dark spots making up the large lower sunspot group. I
was surprised how much brighter these light areas were from the
rest of the solar disc.
Rich
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>The Sun was also very interesting in white light.
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>Telescope: Takahashi FC100 (100 mm f/8) fluorite doublet refractor
>Filter: Daystar 0.6 a T Scanner, 4" prefilter, 35 mm eyepiece, barlow,
>telecentric lens, Maxbright diagonal, etc. I believe the image was at
>about 50x.
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>Rich
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