Grayskies

I wish you all a very happy Christmas and a safe 2025.
Hopefully next year will provide plenty of opportunities to capture more of our universe beauty.

On the 17th November the sun was very active again.
Here are two photos I captured with my Solar telescope gear, of exactly the same capture in mono. The one on the left being the original in mono, and the one on the right being an inverted version. Meaning all the shades of gray are reversed. ie… black to white, light gray to dark gray and so forth.
The reason for doing this is we can analyse variants and activity in quite an accurate way.
You will notice in the inverted photo that the long “streamer” like features tend to give a 3D effect in this presentation.
On a different note comes the mind bending comprehension of size.
Take a look at that long streamer thing we call a “filament”. This is actually a long fire trail that has erupted and is actually shooting out and away from the surface of the sun towards us. When these are seen on the Suns edge, they are referred to as “flares”.
Ok so now the mind bender. The Sun is 1.4 million kilometres in diameter. Now measure the length of that filament with relation to scale of the Suns diameter and we come close to around 600,000kms or there abouts.
So in distance, that long fire wall would easily wrap itself around, and consume our Earth roughly 15 times.
See what I mean 😳😳