Solar Prominence Animation

Blogged by Xiao Sun on April 18, 2011 and tagged with Sample Images, Solar Prominence, Animation.

German amateur astronomer Ingmar Glass photographed a spectacular solar prominence on 10.04.2011. Then he made this fascinating animation with a sequence of frames, which were recorded by a DMK 41AU02.AS astronomy camera.

The one shown below is the low-resolution version of this animation. Click on it to open the bigger one.

Quote of his e-mail:

yesterday I had luck again in capturing a timlapse of a Solar Prominence that broke up. This is one of my finest animations.I captured every half minute, a 700frames AVI.

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