Solar Program At NC Estuarium

On Sept 17 members of Carolina Skies Astronomy Club presented a program on the Sun and how it affects our environment at the NC Estuarium in Washington NC. Fred Davenport provided a Celestron NexStar 11 with a solar filter, and a Coronado PST hydrogen alpha telescope, John Bray provided a 6" Dob with a solar filter and I setup my Celestron NexStar 11 with a Baader solar filter to provide visitors with views of Sunspot 897 and 810. As sunspot 810 had just emerged on the sun's eastern limb we observed a prominence emanating from it through Fred's PST. Quite an awesome view.

John Bray tried to photograph it through the eyepiece of the PST - I hope he was successful.

Photo at right from top clockwise: Fred Davenport, John & Nancy Bray at the PST, Visitor at Fred's NexStar 11, Visitor at the Sunspotter. You can view the entire photo collection at http://csac.weseestars.org/Album/

Thanks to the director and staff of the NC Estuarium for their hospitality.