Hydrogen Alpha Sun

09:08 6/4/2006 UTC

Long time since I last had an opportunity to observe sun. This time there were even some activitity going on! Visually there were lots of more to see than previous time I was observing. Sun looked pretty awesome through the eyepiece! There were several large prominences and few sunspots presenting brighter areas aroud them. For some reason those details easily visible to eye is like most difficult to capture with camera. The main reason probably is, that PST is not designed for photography. However I still captured some prominences and active regions. The image was overexposed to reveal dim prominences in red channel. Then the much dimmer green channel was used for surface detail.