Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Jaw Dropping Solar Activity Sunday
We saw a hard to believe solar prominence this past Sunday. It was this wide, squatty thing over the course of the afternoon, but a little before 5 it exploded outward. At first it took on a shape like crumpled up paper. But then it expanded into this linear filament that just kept going. If you looked at 5 minute intervals it was really different every time! I believe I'm being conservative when I say at its greatest length it exceeded 10% the diameter of the Sun. Vlad and I were the only ones to stay till the end, it disconnected and by 5:20 or so it was an evaporating wisp of a prominence. Been looking at the Sun for years, some times its great, sometime it puts you to sleep. But I'd never seen anything remotely similar to this.
Very sorry to say there was no photographic provision at the time, we were set up to serve the public. All we walked away was observation.
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