Jack, John and Sam grab a shot of the Sun with an
unusual feature on 26 04 04
Close-up of the 'crater' feature
The 'crater ' Sun (centre) compared to SOHO views at
the same time
Jack's image of a strange feather-shaped prominence
Jack, John, Sam and Robs images of prominences
Image showing complex 486 just after it created the
third largest recorded flare 11.45 UT 28.10.03
Close up of the devastation created by the great flare
of 486
A bright fprominence sprouts from a pock-marked Sun
A combined image using under and overexposed frames
Lateral thinking produced a new way of
imaging. Massively over expose and the blue and green pixels register
the brightest parts of the image whilst the faint flares are still picked up
by the reds.
Major sunspots of October 2003
Our shot of a flare on the left hand side of the Sun
is shown to be enormous by an added scale image of the Earth.
However a giant prominence erupting on the other side of the Sun, captured
by SOHO 13 hours before, dwarfs our one.
Composite image showing one of the great
sunspot groups of October 2003 and a prominence
Success with the Nikon 995 at iso100, spot
metering 1/500sec F5.1 -2.00EV exposure compensation
Details of prominence
A
Sunspotter image of the October great sunspot groups taken by year 7
astronomers
Rob G's picture captures surface features and small
flares
Year 7 student Nathan's picture of
the 2003 Mercury transit using an ETX 70 and Scopetronix white light filter
Year 7 student Tom B's shots of the
solar eclipse on 31st May 2003
.Alex tuned the Hα telescope to reveal surface features
including an S shape lighter area he managed to capture here. He
showed these images to Dr Mason who checked them against SOHO data for the
same day. Dr Mason explained to Alex how the magnetic fields that
create sunspots, often create this S shape when they are about to launch a
large flare into the corona.
Nathanael, Alex and
Matthew give the Maxscope first light.
Our first
image. The challenges are to get it in focus and play with exposure to
capture both details on the Sun's disk and the much fainter
prominences.
Anton is first to try
out one of the Sunspotters.
Anton gets great
results from his first few snaps.
