Today’s solar image is a stack of the best 180 frames from an AVI of 630 frames. I shot this AVI in RAW format, and I don’t think that the result is as pleasing as straight AVI. The RAW format required tinkering with debayering in video post-processing, and that was a trial-and-error proposition. It isn’t worth the extra hassle, in my newbie opinion.
The image below shows the progression of the large sunspot group AR3780 that we have been following for the past few weeks as it has moved across the solar disk.
The images below emphasize sunspot AR3784 and its adjacent plage near the solar meridian, group AR-3780 and adjacent prominences on the western solar limb, prominences on the eastern limb and additional prominences along the solar South pole. Note that the thin, dark lines and arcs on the solar disk are also prominences albeit seen on edge – from above, as it were.
Note that there is a mass of solar material high above the prominences of the western limb. Yesterday, we saw arcuate structures in those prominences. This fragment is probably solar material that broke away from one of the arcs.
