From: albe albo <richter1956@yahoo.com>

Date: March 8, 2010 1:37:30 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] today's sun - 3-6-2010

Very nice Alan.

Nice and... useful (LOL) because Saturday i was asking myself the causes about that darker area near the border of the sun and you answered to my self question...

I started a 30 second time lapse of that filament(double exposition  both for protuberances and chromosphere) but after some time a lot of clouds interrupted the movie as usual. 

I was thinking about trashing all the time lapse frames without processing it.

Fankly i was tempted to trash all the astronomy setup too because of the clouds, rain, fog, dew, cold, turbulence that since 2 winters seems to be the normal condtions.

Perhaps they ARE the normal conditions for our areas but since years we were used to a warmer and drier weather.

I should be happy for our planet because it is a confirmation that the global warming is not so warm but it is soooo bad for our passion.

Do you think that it could be interesting to align approx half an hour of grabbings or that filament moved very slowly?

Lately i saw nice protuberances but they were very lazy while some weeks ago i took some little protuberance that evolved explosively within 5 minutes.

Cheers

Alberto

Da: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

A: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Inviato: Dom 7 marzo 2010, 03:32:37

Oggetto: [Astro_IIDC] today's sun - 3-6-2010

Hi all,

Sharing a picture from this afternoon - a couple of nice filaments visible at the edge of the sun in Ha light. This was the larger of the two:

http://www.avertedi magination. com/img_pages/ filament030610. html

hope it was sunny in your neck of the woods today!

Alan