A Beautiful Solar Day!

Earth sized magnetic sunspots and long dark filaments decorate the solar disk as prominences appear along the limb.
The entire Sun is covered with a million dynamic spicules in this hydrogen-alpha photograph of the Sun’s Chromosphere.





  Filter: .5Å Coronado SolarMax 90
  Telescope: Tele Vue TV-102
  Camera: SBIG ST-2000XM
  Exposure: .008
  Processing: CCDOps, Adobe PhotoShop
     
  Worldwide Usage: The International Year of Astronomy's "From the Earth To The Universe" exhibit.
Seen at over 250 locations in 70 countries.

Astrophotography by the Masters, Voyageur Press

Sky and Telescope's Beautiful Universe.

Bild Der Wissenschaft SternZiet Calendar (Germany),
The Very Best of APOD (Abrams Publishing New York).

NASA's Imagine the Universe! CD-Rom, planetastronamy.com (France),
RedNova.com (USA),
Coelum magazine and Coelum.com (Italy), The University of
Tennessee
Solar Study Guide,  TERC's Astrobiology: The Search for Life in the Universe.


NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD), Spaceweather.com
cover,
Astronomy.com's Picture of the Day.


Published in numerous other technical papers, teaching resources and school reports around the globe.
     
  Purchase Metallic Photo of this image at SpaceWeather.com and ExploreScientific.com
     
  Purchase the Classic style photograph famed and unframed in many sizes from Sky Image Lab 
     
 

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