another prom sequence from today. 21st March

animated prom

another sunny day today. Here's a (2 frame) animation of one of the active prominences. Click on the pic to see animation

and another

More solar activity

Lunt solar scope. First light image

Circumzenithal arc

I'd always heard that these were ghostly sights, but at its brightest this one was superb. Is it just that people go around looking at the pavement rather than the sky?

A few geosats near Jupiter

I took a number of 30sec exposures with a fixed camera. The stars fly by but geostationary satellites are fixed (approximately). How many can you see? Video didn't load so here is a composite.