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Old September 21st 05, 06:37 PM
Brian Tung
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Michael McCulloch wrote:
I captured the arcing prominence shape at about 21h UT:

http://gamesforone.com/stars/images/sun9-20-05.jpg


It got bigger. I got out my SM40 at about 0h UT, and the southern
half of that prominence had simply erupted, and was making its way out
into space, I think. It was perhaps 200,000 km long--one of only a few
I have seen this year that were that long.

Anyone in east Asia catch the rest of it? I only had a minute or two
to look at it--one of the advantages of having a nice portable H-alpha
set-up at your disposal.

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