Saturday, July 20, 2024

The Sun yesterday

 The Sun imaged with a Lunt LS50THa double-stacked Hydrogen-Alpha telescope and a ZWO ASI178mm camera:

19 July 2024

The white patches are called plages and are hotter-than-average areas around sunspots.  The grey linear features are called filaments and are prominences seen in silhouette against the solar disk.  Around the edge are more prominences.


 

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