ghoulish prominence

Some nice prominences from a sunny weekend:

Prominence 
10/12/25
22:08 UTC

anyone see a ghoul dancing on the sun?

or maybe kokopelli (wikipedia)

animation from the day before (worse seeing):

Solar Prominence 
30 minute animation
10/11/2025 
19:37 to 19:57 UTC

Imaging details:

Here's the lunt on a tracking mount:

Lunt 60 PT B1200 single stacked

zwo ASI 290MM

20 second captures

best 75%

animation

10/11/25

unguided solar tracking on celestron CGX

single frame

10/12/25

manual guiding with alt-azm mount

East Bluff, CA

as you can see, the "seeing" wasn't great during the animation with frames seeming to go in and out of focus.  

took a stupid amount of time to process the 59 frame continuous animation.  

should have put a delay between frames.  

the seeing and prominence shape was better the second day, but didn't have the time for an animation

animation

Frames captured=2328

FPS (avg.)=116

Shutter=0.357ms

Gain=351 (58%)

single frame

composite of two captures:

Frames captured=2328

FPS (avg.)=116

Shutter=1.925ms

Gain=351 (58%)

Frames captured=2325

FPS (avg.)=116

Shutter=1.215ms

Gain=351 (58%)

captured in firecapture

stacked in autostakkert

combined/finished in photoshop. 

maybe a little oversharpened on the single frame ;)