Large solar prominence – September 11, 2016

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In the last couple of days a large filaprom was observable at the solar limb. Today it showed its true height, in the form of a large and luminous prominence.

115mm F/7 APO Refractor, Quark chromosphere, ASI 174MM. Seeing: 4-5/10.

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Compared to Earth, this is truly a giant prominence:

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A reprocessing of the above, in “artistic-mode”:

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