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You wouldn't know it by the temperature...

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...but the sun really is up there. I picked up a PST over the holidays, and today I stuck a snapshot camera up to the eyepiece. The sun is pretty quiet right now, but still there are several filaments and whatnot to be seen on the disc. The prominence activity on the limb is variable, just like everything else on the sun, and today there were a couple of vivid ones. To the north there was a very pretty broken arch prominence that showed some fine filamentary material jumping the gap when viewed at 40-50x in the eyepiece, and to the south there was a pyramid prominence of small to medium size. I know that very limited detail is captured in a simple snapshot like this though the eyepiece, but I still enjoy playing with them.

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"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens." - Anaxagoras
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