A large filament, prominences, active regions and sunspots make for a good day of solar observing.



          

 

  Date: Nov. 26th, 2004 1800UT
  Location: Rockville, Maryland USA
  Rotation: 2023
  Filter: Coronado SolarMax 90
  Telescope: Tele Vue TV-102
  Camera: SBIG ST-2000XM
  Exposure: .008
  Processing: CCDOps, Adobe PhotoShop
  Usage: NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day for Dec. 6th, 2004, Spaceweather.com cover, Astronomy.com's Picture of the Day, ATWB Picture of the Day. It is used by NASA on the Imagine the Universe! CD-Rom, featured on planetastronamy.com (France), on RedNova.com (USA), in the January issue of Italy's Coelum magazine and Coelum.com, The University of Tennessee Solar Study Guide and has been published in several other technical and teaching resources. Recent usage has included TERC's Astrobiology: The Search of Life in the Universe, the Bild Der Wissenschaft SternZiet Calendar 2006 (Germany) and The Best of APOD (Abrams Publishing New York).

 

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