Solar Prominence
Sketch and Details by Jeff Young
My permanent pier is a bit high for this time of year (when the sun is so low to the horizon), so I had to rotate the binocular head a bit to see through it. The sketch orientation therefore doesn’t match the sun graphic (courtesy of Tilting Sun by Les Cowley) in the upper right.
I’ve only been doing solar sketches for about 6 months now, but this was definitely the most fun to sketch so far. Conditions were pretty poor (with seeing alternating between bad and horrible, and transparency not much better), but there was gobs of detail to take in and try to reproduce.
White Derwent Graphitint pencil on black Artagain paper. Solarscope 70mm h-alpha filter / Tele Vue Pronto / Astro-Physics Barlow / Baader MkV binoviewer / Tele Vue 19mm Panoptics / Astro-Physics 400QMD equatorial mount. 10-Oct-2008; 10:20UT; County Louth, Ireland.
Jeff,
An impressive sketch, the views must be amazingly beautiful when the seeing is better.
Frank