Reach for the Sky - Massive Prom of August 27, 2022 (Hamza Ilyas @Muslimastronomer)

Reach for the Sky - Massive Prom of August 27, 2022

What happens when the Sun reaches for the sky?

Perhaps a perhaps a breathtaking prom as photographed from my back garden on August 27 2022.

Amazing but true story:

Back in December 2021, I had a dream in which I saw I was photographing the sun and even in the dream I was REALLY apprehensive considering the risks. Interestingly enough, I was using my 9.25EHD to image up in my loft bedroom and struggling to fit some kind of adapter over the front of the scope. I then saw in my minds eye, a corner of the Sun and an extraordinarily large prom moving from west to east amidst a jet black background.
Anyway, once I woke up, although I never had any interest in photographing the sun, I began to research solar scopes and later put it off considering here in the UK, solar scopes go for double the US prices. Luckily enough and out of the blue, in June 2022, an LS80MT solar scope fell right into my hands....

This is precisely why I wanted one!

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