astrophotography by bill w

a solar prominence is typically a structure seen on the edge of the sun against the black background of space.  it often looks like an ar...

what color are the Ha (hydrogen alpha) images of the sun? hydrogen alpha is red, but viewing thru my solar scope, it looks reddish orange t...

back in may i took a quick look at the sun and saw multiple prominences erupting around the disk.  one of which looked like it was lifting ...

more solar work first a prominence animation.   I've increased the imaging frequency and animation speed to give more fluid motion i...

caught saturn the other night with fair seeing a number of moons were evident visually visually i was able to see titan, tethys, reha...

saw a promising prominence on 5/4/14 and decided to image it: here's the animation just over 2 hours imaging once every 5 minutes ...

sent out an image last year of a solar prominence i'd captured : mother of a prom here's an animation from the same day: ...