From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: June 6, 2011 10:25:26 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] More solar images from the weekend

Hi Jim;

Very nice details.  Those are single frames I'm guessing?

I'd guess that the sun surface is much hotter than the prominences, and against that hot background look darker . Where as above the limb / space they have a cooler background and glow against it. I hadn't really thought about it before.

On a personal note, what's with the name change to "matt carmine"? That's how your Yahoo postings are showing up, but the mail address is still Jim_Chung?

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

On 6-Jun-11, at 7:50 AM, matt carmine wrote:

As promised, here are some images taken from a few of the many active regions that were present on the body of the Sun yesterday.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/SunJune5a.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/SunJune5B.jpg

and lastly:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/SunJune5C.jpg

Many of the large thick dark filaments are actually prominences erupting in our direction. I managed to tease out some of the detail but it is interesting that they appear as a negative image to prominences seen on the perimeter of the sun.

Jim