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CapturingTheNight β€” The Sun 22nd of October '11

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WARNING: NEVER OBSERVE THE SUN WITH THE NAKED EYE OR THROUGH A TELESCOPE, CAMERA OR OTHER OPTICAL DEVICE UNLESS YOU HAVE A PROPER SOLAR FILTER AND KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

The sun today. I love the faint solar eruption coming off between 2 and 3 o'clock. I tried to process this image to bring out as much detail around the solar limb, which is why the surface detail isn't as vibrant as it has been in the past.

22/10/2011
21:52 UT (GMT)
Canon 1000D
Baader Mark III Hyperion 8-24mm Zoom EP @ 16mm
Coronado PST (Personal Solar Telescope)
NEQ6 Pro Goto Telescope Mount
71 images for the prominences
80 images for the surface detail
Stacked and processed in Registax6
Final processing in PS CS5.1
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Comments: 32

Corvidae65 [2011-11-01 07:31:58 +0000 UTC]

I wonder if those flares were the ones that caused the great auroras here in the U.S. the other night. Didn't get any shots of the event, myself (I'd put in 650 miles and was sleeping when it happened :sleeping

Excellent image my friend Kinda hard to imagine that any one of those eruptions would engulf the earth totally, but they would

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CapturingTheNight In reply to Corvidae65 [2011-11-01 09:21:57 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much once again John Yeah the Earth, on this scale, would fit inside the hole of the '0' in 2011. Not sure about these prominences causing those aurora. Maybe if they were pointed this way and not around the outside pointing away from us. Sorry to hear you missed them. I am yet to experience an aurora display.

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Corvidae65 In reply to CapturingTheNight [2011-11-07 01:31:33 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

I saw a strong one about 10 years ago--before I was interested in photography--it had the classic streamers. At my latitude all we usually get is a green glow on the northern horizon, so the streamer one was a real treat to see.

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ZidanA [2011-10-27 12:02:53 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic! As always.....)))))))

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CapturingTheNight In reply to ZidanA [2011-10-27 19:43:27 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much I'm glad you like it.

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Arafinwearcamenel [2011-10-25 16:35:56 +0000 UTC]

Amazing, never seen the sun like this !

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CapturingTheNight In reply to Arafinwearcamenel [2011-10-25 19:39:35 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much for the great feedback I'm glad you like it.

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EmilioBrown [2011-10-25 00:50:58 +0000 UTC]

great great picture, I like it

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CapturingTheNight In reply to EmilioBrown [2011-10-25 06:29:43 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you do Thank you very much

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EmilioBrown In reply to CapturingTheNight [2011-10-25 18:06:09 +0000 UTC]

YouΒ΄re welcome

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athoa-adelfi [2011-10-24 15:07:13 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful solar photo.

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CapturingTheNight In reply to athoa-adelfi [2011-10-24 19:31:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much

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nutmeg-42 [2011-10-23 06:45:10 +0000 UTC]

Amazing. I noticed the solar eruption straight up. You must have done something right because my eyes jumped straight to it.

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CapturingTheNight In reply to nutmeg-42 [2011-10-23 08:38:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much That's what I was aiming for.

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11thDimensionPhoto [2011-10-23 05:04:51 +0000 UTC]

These are so freaking wickedly awesome, Greg. That eruption on the right side is crazy. Kudos on your efforts.

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CapturingTheNight In reply to 11thDimensionPhoto [2011-10-23 08:38:09 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for the great feedback Michael I'm glad you like it.

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11thDimensionPhoto In reply to CapturingTheNight [2011-10-23 15:05:41 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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uncreativescreenname [2011-10-23 03:24:23 +0000 UTC]

A fine shot of the atom factory, Greg.

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CapturingTheNight In reply to uncreativescreenname [2011-10-23 08:37:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much James

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AbdoHad [2011-10-23 02:46:20 +0000 UTC]

wow is not it supposed to be very shiny ?! ... how did you get it in this way? ... must be really fast shutter speed or a lot of NDs

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CapturingTheNight In reply to AbdoHad [2011-10-23 03:03:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. You cannot do a shot like this with a standard camera lens and photo filters. I use a proper solar telescope which blocks something like 99.9999% of the light coming from the sun, allowing me to take these images safely. I attach my camera directly to this solar telescope. DO NOT try this yourself without using proper solar filters (not ND filters) and know exactly what you are doing.

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AbdoHad In reply to CapturingTheNight [2011-10-23 17:05:39 +0000 UTC]

lol yah don't worry .. i am not doing it

but was wondering what tools are you using !

thankx for the reply .. interesting to know

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Handie [2011-10-23 00:56:49 +0000 UTC]

wow! looks like lots of activity going on!

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CapturingTheNight In reply to Handie [2011-10-23 02:57:48 +0000 UTC]

There was a bit around today Sandra Thank you very much.

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Syndyne [2011-10-23 00:49:40 +0000 UTC]

Nice work! These are really getting good now Greg

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CapturingTheNight In reply to Syndyne [2011-10-23 02:57:19 +0000 UTC]

Awww Thanks Shaun I'm glad you think so.

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Joe-Lynn-Design [2011-10-23 00:36:58 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work Greg!

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CapturingTheNight In reply to Joe-Lynn-Design [2011-10-23 02:56:36 +0000 UTC]

Cheers Carl. Thank you very much I'm glad you like it.

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Joe-Lynn-Design In reply to CapturingTheNight [2011-10-23 03:00:42 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome Greg!

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Snapoclap [2011-10-23 00:35:51 +0000 UTC]

Simply breath taking.

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CapturingTheNight In reply to Snapoclap [2011-10-23 02:55:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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Snapoclap In reply to CapturingTheNight [2011-10-23 05:00:21 +0000 UTC]

Welcome!

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