The Dutch Observatory

November 26, 2012 on 6:41 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Today I caught the sun while it was ejecting a huge prominence into space.  The action was already in progress when I setup for observing, so I decided to image data for a timelaps.  I got data for 1/2 hour as the plasma started to move outside the frame.  I made one more image 1 hour after I started imaging to show how far the material had travelled in that time.  This was a wonderfull catch!    (Click the last image for the timelapse.)