Solar Telescopes

The cause and effect of the Sun’s activity right here on Earth!
You will learn to see the fine feather-like details of the faintest prominence, the bright birth of a solar flare, its rapid growth of energy, and its departure from the Sun’s surface into space.
You will see caterpillar/worm-like structures (filaments) snaking across the Sun’s surface, spirals of gas activity spewing and churning from active regions above sunspots, and if you are lucky, the violent eruption of an X-class flare from the surface. This amazing event, which is highly energetic, fast evolving, huge in size, really does provide the full appreciation of just how small we humans really are.
The solar features you are looking at can last hours and even days. As the Earth rotates around the Sun, the features will appear to move across the Sun’s surface. This allows the observer to see the details in various angles and positions, both off the edge of the Sun, and in cooler contrast to the Sun’s bright and hotter surface.
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