A HUGE PROMINENCE ON THE SUN: If you have a solar telescope, point it at the sun’s western limb. “There’s a huge prominence on the sun today,” reports Chris Schur, who sends this picture from Payson, Arizona: Source: Spaceweather.com Realtime Image Gallery, Taken by Chris Schur on December 14, 2024 @ Payson, Az
The Proximity of the Sun and the Moon
The Moon is receiving it’s brightest dose of Light during the Perihelion. The Sun’s closest proximity to Earth makes it the closest proximity to the Moon. Spaceweather forecasts the potential for full spectrum halos around the Moon.
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 12/15/2024
A HUGE PROMINENCE ON THE SUN: If you have a solar telescope, point it at the sun’s western limb. “There’s a huge prominence on the sun today,” reports Chris Schur, who sends this picture from Payson, Arizona:
The glowing structure stands taller than 10 planet Earths and stretches more than 400,000 km along the arc of the solar disk. These dimensions make it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. Even better–it is poised to erupt. Those long red streamers in Schur’s photo are held aloft by unstable magnetic fields. The next photo could be a blast…
