The sun goes bananas !!

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Dave Lillis
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The sun goes bananas !!

Post by Dave Lillis » Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:21 pm

This is amazing, never seen the likes of something this big, you can only imagine the aurora from it if it were aimed at Earth
Scroll down to the center yellow/orange video.
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2011
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Post by Roy Stewart » Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:38 pm

NICEEEEEEEE...

I think the sleeping baby is waking up
and she looks hungry....

Watching images like that makes u wanna
get a PST....

I wonder if Meade are still doing the
free PST's with every 10" and over????????

Cheers Roy :D :D
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Post by Dave Lillis » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:46 pm

more like a solarmax 60, imagine if it were during a solar eclipse, that would have been unbelievable !!
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Post by Frank Ryan » Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:27 am

Holy crap!

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Post by Dave Lillis » Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:34 pm

you can actually see the prominence fall back and splash on the sun's surface, unreal!! :shock: :shock:
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Post by John O'Mahony » Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:09 am

Dave Lillis wrote:you can actually see the prominence fall back and splash on the sun's surface, unreal!! :shock: :shock:
Looks like a sun "sneeze". Amazing :shock:
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