Solar tornado

[Filipp Romanov]

Hello all!

Today the weather was cloudy to observe the eclipse, so instead of solar eclipse, I publish here my report about the observation of solar tornado.

On April 29, 2017 (2 days after my 20th anniversary) was Astronomy Day. This day I first visited Gorky Park Observatory in Moscow (after I bought an entrance ticket). The weather was clear after cloudy morning, and I was able to look at the Sun through solar telescope Coronado SolarMax 90 DoubleStack. I saw an interesting area with prominences: later I found out that one of them was the solar tornado https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.ph ... &year=2017

I recorded some short videos through the eyepiece of this telescope, with my compact camera Canon PowerShot SX600 HS, I attached the results of their processing in RegiStax 5.1.

[Filipp Romanov]

I attach two single frames of the solar disk through this solar telescope (in the second photo, the sky was already in haze).

[Filipp Romanov]

Also there I was able to visually see the Sun in white light through telescope Celestron EdgeHD 14. I made a video of group of sunspots AR 2651 (returned AR 2644). The processing result is attached here.

With best regards,

Filipp.

[marktownley]

Cool pics!

[Filipp Romanov]

Thank you for your opinion!

I am attaching a landscape photo with clouds during the eclipse that I took today from Yuzhno-Morskoy, near Nakhodka, Russia.

[marios i.]

Wonderful!

[Filipp Romanov]

Thank you Marios, I tried to process my videos so that the photos had as many details of solar tornado as possible.

[DeepSolar64]

Filipp,
Nice images! The Coronado SolarMax 90 DS is a very familiar telescope to me. I own one! It does really well on details such as this. I also find it interesting in the fact that you used a Canon PowerShot camera to do these. Thumbs up on this!

James

[Filipp Romanov]

Thank you for your comment about my photos! A year later, using the same compact camera, I took a photo of solar prominences through a modified Coronado P.S.T. (I published it here viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25230 ).