Contains:  Solar system body or event
Solar Flare AR 2960 Mar 4 2022, walkman

Solar Flare AR 2960 Mar 4 2022

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

I was fortunate to catch a nice solar flare in the new AR 2960 which has recently rotated into view.  I had clouds initially but luckily they passed though there was a very slight haze.  I created an animation covering 78 minutes in real time.  Besides the very apparent flare, there is also movement in the two filaments to the left of AR2960 in my image (flipped left to right) as well as in the proms.  There is also some minor flaring in the plage areas in the AR proper.

Data acquired with SharpCap Pro, a sequence of 180 10 second captures by 15 sec delay.  Stacked best 200 frames (of over 2000 frames per capture) in AutoStakkert 3, sharpened and aligned in ImPPG and PIPP for the animation.

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