Nice Solar Acitivity, 2006/10/8

[Dave Mitsky]

There were two loop prominences on the Sun's leading limb on Sunday afternoon at approximately 19:00 UT and a rather spectacular prominence on the trailing limb.

A photo of the large prominence by Eric Roel that appeared on spaceweather.com is posted at http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2006/09oct06/roel.jpg

Observations were made with a 40mm Coronado PST and an 8-24mm Vixen Lanthanum LV zoom eyepiece.

Dave Mitsky

[glasspusher]

Its not too bad today either. Missed it yesterday. If the thin clouds will get out of my way it might be even better.

[Casus_belli]

ooh chance of an aurora tonight perhaps. Good viewing here tonight, going to watch the moon occulting the Maia cluster as long as it doesnt fog up

[Dave Mitsky]

The large prominence was still hanging in there on Tuesday afternoon.

Here's Alan Friedman's three frame animation (http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/prom_animation.html) of the prominence from an earlier date.

Dave Mitsky