A dinosaur on the sun - and a big one at that ;-)

Very close to the large sunspot that gave us northern lights all the way to Sicily, there was a truly large prominence! I rotated the image slightly so the "dinosaur effect" is easier to see.

And seriously: I've never seen a prominence so fragmented.

Equipment:

Telescope:
Bresser 100/1000 refractor with a PST box as a conversion (tube sawn off to the focal length, the PST box attached without the tube and fitted with an adapter). The adapter is available here in the shop. Check out the solar observation section.

Energy protection filter (Baader - see the solar observation section)

Camera:
Bresser Deep Sky Full HD Camera



Mount:
AVX by Celestron

Best regards,
Reinhard Pankrath
www.astro.pankrath.eu