ICSTARS Astronomy's Hydrogen Alpha Solar Observations

March 17, 2001

2001-03-17 - Photographs taken between 19:10:00 UT and 20:20:00 UT. Rotation 1974 - Location: Roeland Park, Kansas, USA. 4.75 inch refractor operating at f30 with prototype .4 angstrom prominence filter. Sky: Clear. Kodak Tech Pan 2415 film, 1/60 sec. Scanned in color. Enhanced with Adobe Photoshop. All Photos (C)2001 by Vic & Jen Winter/ICSTARS Astronomy.

Today's outstanding solar feature is a large group of prominences extending from nearly due west on the disk northward.

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