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Old September 24th 05, 08:03 AM
nytecam[_1_] nytecam[_1_] is offline
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Default polar solar prominence
The last two mornings a large prom has persisted on the 'bottom' of
the sun [as Coronado PST view] seems of high northern declination eg 75o latitude allowing for current position of N pole tilted slightly towards earth. Pics at

http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstnew.htm

It's exactly 26 years since I first sketched polar proms in the Ha sun via a homebullt massive spectrohelioscope at
http://www.astroman.fsnet.co.uk/needle1.htm
long before the wonderous and tiny Coronado PST;-)

Nytecam
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Last edited by nytecam : September 24th 05 at 08:57 AM.