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Photographer:

Jon Greif

Location of Photo:

La Jolla, CA, USA

Date/Time of photo:

December 30, 2021, at 4:00 pm PST

Equipment:

Lunt 50 mm/F7 Ha Solar Telescope, ZWO ASI462MC imaging camera, Sky Watcher AZ-GTI mount, Lynkeos and Pixinsight software.

Description:

There has been intense sunspot activity in the 2916 area of the earth-facing sun surface for several weeks. This afternoon we were able to see and image solar flares coming off the limb adjacent to the sun spot activity. The image is a stack of 300 frames from a 10 second video.

Website:

https://www.skyandtelescope.com/author/jgreif/