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Photographer:

cobbu2

Location of Photo:

North Potomac, Maryland

Date/Time of photo:

20 September 2024 /11:37 AM EDT

Equipment:

A 1965 quartz Questar 3.5-inch Standard MCT, Quark Chromosphere Combo H-Alpha Filter, Tele-Vue 2.5X Powermate, ZWO ASI174MM Camera

Description:

Active Region 3825 is present in the upper left corner. H-alpha image of the Sun's southern region using a ZWO ASI 174MM Astronomy Camera and a Daystar Quark Combo Chromosphere H-alpha filter with a Questar 3.5 50.5-inch focal length Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope with a Baader Energy Rejection Filter and a TeleVue 2.5x PowerMate. Best 50 of 500 frames each of both the surface and the prominences were captured with SharpCap 4.0 and aligned, stacked using Autostakkert! 3 with wavelets applied in Registax 6. Combining of the surface and prominences and final adjustments were made in Adobe CS5 and Luminar Neo.

Website:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/allancobb/albums/72157684441200811/