Thursday, 10 September 2026

Unusual solar eruption

This rather unusual solar eruption happened at around 15:10 UTC on the 5th September.

It's unusual in that it appears to erupt out of nowhere with no visible trail. It just seems to be a ball of plasma. Roughly scaling from measuring the PC monitor, it was travelling at about 1.54M km/hr.

Equipment:

Scope: Coronado PST

Camera: Altair GP-CAM3 178M

Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro

Time-lapse images taken every 15s, compiled to video using PiPP and VirtualDub




Stills of the Sun earlier in the day.

On the left white light image, Sky-Watcher 80ED PRO

On the right Ha image, Coronado PST