Solar Update: March 2022
Current solar activity has imagers busy posting their prized Hydrogen-α images to social media. Naturally, there’s a lot of Tele Vue gear in use and here we present a collection of such images.
Sun in Hydrogen-α (21 February 2022)
John Johnston has been imaging the Sun since May 2020. His current set up features a Lunt LS50THa/B600 (fl: 300mm) solar scope extended to 875mm using the Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate amplifier.
His Hydrogen-α portrait below, of a dramatic solar prominence on the limb, caught our eye. The prominence is joined by sunspots, dark filaments, and fibrils on the face of the Sun.



John images from Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
I really do love my Powermate, what a fantastic optic!
John Johnston
Solar Full Disc Image (8 March 2022)
Vineet Bewtra images the sun from London, UK. The imaging setup includes a flip-mirror diagonal. Close-up imaging is done at prime focus through a Tele Vue-76 scope with Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate. A flip of the diagonal mirror feeds the image to another camera for full-disc imaging on the Sun.
In the following full-disc image (made with the Tele Vue-76) we see sunspots with plages and fibrils while solar prominences dance along the limbs of the Sun.


By the way, I have to say you guys make great products — your eyepieces are of course wonderful, and the Tele Vue-76 is just ridiculously versatile: Solar, Night Vision, wide-field, it does it all — in a travel friendly size.
Vineet Bewtra
Solar Prominence (inverted image – 12 March 2022)
Imaging from Carlsbad, CA, Michael Caligiuri captured this dramatic photo, with the help of our Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate, of a solar prominence erupting on the northeast limb of the sun on 12 March 2022. Surface features include the dark sunspots of Active Region 2965, filaments, and roiling Fibrils.

Amazing luck that I saw it and had the scope and camera ready.
Michael Caligiuri
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