I didn't expect much today. The White Light Sunspot count only revealed 3 groups in the North Hemisphere but this included one new large single spot group (AR 4046).
Observing in Ha using the SCASTRO 60mm Lunt Telescope, I noted a large prominence just above the newly emerged sunspot. This was observed for just over two hours and the evolution captured in a number of frames. There were breaks during the observation due to heavy cloud and eventually ended when rain arrived
Telescope: Lunt ST60 with Baader modular Barlow Lens ~ 2x - ZWO ASI 138MM Camera.
The solar disk is heavily over exposed. The prominence is very dim compared to the brightness of the photosphere. Where light cloud passed over, the chromosphere (Solar atmosphere) become just about visible as an apparent series of speckles.
This initial colourised image is a combination of a correctly exposed photosphere merged with a a correctly exposed image of the prominence.
Imaging commenced at 12:06UT and ended at 14:12UT.
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