The sun, loop prominence on southwest Limb
by Vern on Mar.29, 2008, under Astronomy, Solar
Nice loop prominence was visible on the sun’s southwest limb.
Image taken with Solarscope Ltd. 50mm h-alpha telescope, Televue 2.5X Powermate, DMK 21AF04.AS camera 1/82 sec, 60 fps. Sky was clear, 5 mph wind, temperature 68 °F, turbulence about 6/10, transparency very good, location Louisville, CO.
2 comments for this entry:
March 30th, 2008 on 10:22 pm
Where in Louisville do you go to get these pictures?
Can you see M31 and some other DSOs without a telescope?
April 1st, 2008 on 7:57 pm
I just haul my scope out to the backyard. If you are in the Louisville-Longmont-Boulder area join us sometime at a star party… see http://www.longmontastro.org for schedule.
From a dark site a number of deep sky objects are visible to the naked eye. M31 for sure, M33, M13, quite a few open clusters — Pleades M45 of course, Praespe. Just off the top of my head, probably quite a few more…
With just 10×50 binnoculars you can see more than 80 of the Messier objects.