Our Sun with Huge Prominence

[Philip Whitebloom]

It's all in the timing. I took out my H-alpha 60mm Lunt to see what was happening on the Sun today. I was excited to see a huge prominence. Click on this link to see the capture:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pwastro/55333356324/in/dateposted-public/

I immediately got photo gear and setup quickly. The picture came out great.

This is a single-frame H-alpha image of the Sun captured on June 13, 2026, using my 60mm Lunt solar telescope in single-stack mode, without a 2X Barlow.

The large prominence along the lower-left edge is what immediately caught my attention. It extends outward from the solar limb with a broad, arched structure and visible internal detail. Using the scale that approximately 110 Earths could fit edge to edge across the diameter of the Sun, this prominence is estimated at approximately 28 Earths across from left to right.

The solar disk also shows visible H-alpha surface texture, with an active region on the right side of the image.

Capture details: ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera, captured with SharpCap 4.1, RGB24 color space, 1920 × 1200 capture area, gain 72, exposure 12.365 ms, single-frame snapshot.

Because this was captured as a single frame rather than a stacked image, I was especially pleased with the amount of structure visible in the prominence.

Clear Skies!

Phil

[Bob Savoy]

Great shot Phil!

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[Kurt Bauch]

Phenomenal!

Kurt Bauch

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