The Solar Explorer

The Solar Explorer

Spectacular solar events

Here I am starting to compile sequences of some of the spectacular solar events that I have captured over the last 5 years or so with a separate page devoted to each solar phenomena, some examples are: Prominence eruptions, filament eruptions, Post flare loops, X-class flares, M-class flares, C class flares, shock waves etc.

SPECTACULAR PROMINENCE AND FILAMENT ERUPTIONS

2 September 2014 here is a massive filament lifting off from 14:12 to 16:12 UT in fairly poor seeing.

Big prominence eruption

Here I captured a huge prominence eruption on 11 September 2013 from 08:07 to 09:23 UT this high resolution sequence also shows some spicule action.

Here is an even larger event that I filmed on 4 September 2012 from 08:48 to 12:28 UT

08:42 to 09:00 UT

09:03 to 09:32 UT

These two videos are of the same event the latter shows the full extent of this eruption filmed 31 July 2012

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Filmed in very poor seeing this prominence erupted on 10 April 2011 sequence from 09:50 to 10:48 UT

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Massive eruption filmed on 13 April 2010 this is only five frames. 08:22 to 08:53 UT