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My favorite solar image of the day

A spectacular image from today - it has it all (OK not really spectacular sunspots) AR 3152 in the upper RH (north eastern quadrant of the solar disk), great filaments in the southern hemisphere, gigantic prominence visible off the south western limb, flares off the south eastern limb - zoom in this image has amazing detail! More images from today to follow but this was just a beautiful example of why we observe the Sun.

Images taken from a cloud free Albert Park in inner Melbourne. Lunt130MT scope on an iOptron CEM70G mount and ZWO ASI174MM camera. H alpha images (656.5nm) Lunt double-stacked 130mm etalons. Images captured using Firecapture, and processed in AutoStakkert!3, RegiStax6 and Photoshop.

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