The Sun was active today. Solar prominences seen with a Hydrogen Alpha Telescope.

[@Planarwalk]

I remember flerfs saying that only NASA images of the sun have those coronal loops, don't tell me they're wrong again!

[@Wolfie6020]

Flerfs just don't know how to use their equipment. They can't even focus a P900.

[@maxwellshammer5283]

@@Wolfie6020 I went to DITRH’s channel a couple days ago and sure enough, one of his latest videos had a P900 star image, out of focus as usual.

[@iandobbin8068]

Congrats, both on the capture and presumably on being reunited with family. All the best. Flerfs miss so much.

[@Wolfie6020]

Thanks. The girls are still in New Zealand for a while. They didn't see Emma's Grandmother for a year due to travel restrictions so this was planned as a long visit. I go to Perth in a few days and if that trip lasts a few weeks they will fly direct to Perth and join me there.

[@iandobbin8068]

@@Wolfie6020 Great 👍 All the best.

[@coriscotupi]

Amazing that those prominences are several times larger than the Earth itself. ...Wolfie, some negotiation will be needed for using the cabbie house as a laptop/battery cabinet.

[@Wolfie6020]

Everything is a negotiation these days. She has a great sense of humour and gets me sometimes.

[@sophierobinson2738]

What a lucky grandpa to get such a sweet kiss! Hope he caught it!

[@rickorider]

Unbelievable. That flare out was amazing! I assume the telescope was on an equatorial mount to get that amount of frames.

[@Wolfie6020]

Yes it was on an EQ mount I had carefully aligned the night before. This is the most activity I have personally seen with the Solar scope.

[@DelBoy1967]

Awesome capture there mate. I was looking at amature astronomy images of the sun the other day, in particular a capture by Brett Dahl. Good to see you back home with the family. Cheers.

[@David_Lee379]

Hey Wolfie, Emma’s too adorable; she wins. Definitely a cubby house! Awesome video!

[@nebtheweb8885]

Amazing, thanks Wolfie! 😎

[@dogwalker666]

Amazing view, haven't see the sun for months can we have it back soon?

[@WoodworkerDon]

🎵 Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire. 🎵

[@Sherwoody]

🎶Here comes the Sun, doo-doo-doo-doo Here comes the Sun and I say It's all right 🎶

[@b0b5m1th]

Plasma, great balls of plasma ..

[@tjjones621]

Well, you know what I am going to say... The reason no flerf has done this kind of photography is because they use the Gleason for directions and got lost on the way to the camera shop. :) Really super amazing footage sir. Were you at full zoom?

[@ReValveiT_01]

How comes all the flares that aren't on the top of the sun aren't sliding down and falling off the bottom? Now imagine if there were people who actually thought like that... Oh, wait...

[@DickHolman]

Velcro. -/s

[@origamiswami6272]

I think it would be cool to put in a size reference for Earth on that sun image. By my rough estimate, it would be about half the size of those prominences.

[@treadingtheboards2875]

This is absolutely beautiful and magnificent. It is also sobering to realize that those flares are so much larger than the diameter of the Earth, it gives thought to how small we are. You know this video will upset the Flerfs, not because of the solar flares on the Sun, but because you showed on screen someone who is far and above more intelligent that they are.

[@izaomar8416]

I reckon the height of some of the flares are higher than the size of Earth…

[@darnhard]

awesome as always mate

[@Wolfie6020]

Thanks. It was the first clear day I have had at home for months.

[@kevinmerida6391]

Awesome timelapse !

[@profphilbell2075]

And according to flat earthers happening right above the clouds. Even at cloud level sometimes.

[@robguyatt9602]

But never below the clouds. Even when the sun is clearly illuminating them from below. Hmm????

[@profphilbell2075]

@@robguyatt9602 apparently the sun has magical powers like a magic lampshade, and it’s magic ability to speed up and slow down and change direction. Then you control the sun by climbing a hill. After it has gone somewhere else, you can make it come back, just for you. So you can watch it go again. Best of all it can output all 3.9 x 10^26 Joules per second of energy from very close by without frying everything under a magic dome. Don’t you love woo and fairy tales?

[@robguyatt9602]

@@profphilbell2075 Damnit Phil. You had me in awe and amazement at the magnificence of our personal Sun(s) till you went and spoilt it by saying it's just a fairy tale. Sob sob sob!!!

[@profphilbell2075]

@@robguyatt9602 LOL 😂

[@profphilbell2075]

@@robguyatt9602 Did Mummy dearest not tell you fairy tales are real?

[@farkasbelabill5969]

Great Job 💡 God Bless All Of You 🔥 Peace 🕊️

[@Dan_C604]

But somehow all that is happening just a few kilometres up in the sky, behind the clouds, close to the dome…….. no biggie, right? LOL Great video Wolfie!!

[@whereswa11y]

Looking Good.

[@wooly1950]

I'm just getting off on a " Hydrogen Alpha Telescope "

[@Lucas_Tulic]

To think that the smallest of those solar flares is bigger than our entire planet is mind boggling! It really puts into perspective how insignificant we are. Even our Sun is tiny if we compare it with other stars! Amazing stuff!

[@Kualinar]

Nice how we can see those flares move and change shape over time. Your daughter is as lovely as ever. Such a sweet little girl.

[@KrisCadwell]

Are the random changes in brightness due to clouds passing by?

[@Wolfie6020]

Some of them are due to clouds. I also changed the exposure a few times to see if we could get more detail. Mostly it was left in auto though and that fluctuates a little through the day.

[@hamnchee]

The sun was angry that day, my friends.. like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli

[@tonymcflattie2450]

Damm, so that’s where the naser budget goes. Top notch setup

[@osci08]

2nd, Those flares must be huge.

[@nebtheweb8885]

They could fry the entire earth in just one of those prominences.

[@Sableagle]

Screenshot at about 2:00 orange ball 750 x 748 px, white halo 753 x 752 px. NASA site: Volumetric mean radius (km) Sun: 695,700. Earth: 6371. That makes 376 px 695,700 km, and I measure from centre to tip of top left prominence at 410.8 px, centre to tip of lower right prominence at 411.8 px, or 64389 km and 66240 km above the surface. Yeah, each of those is more than five Earth diameters tall. Yikes.

[@awatt]

Congratulations 🥈

[@kellyd6195]

Now grandpa, you have an important project to do…make a “cubby house “ for your granddaughter.

[@PaulaBean]

All that sun activity was also noticable on the HAM radio bands.

[@eamonnsiocain6454]

My granddaughter is the age of your daughter. It’s great to have children to remind us how wonderful life is. May you and your family stay well and strong.

[@arctic_haze]

Science interested people: "What wonderful things we can learn about the star in the center of the Solar System!" Flat earth fanatics: "We do not know what this luminary even is".

[@robguyatt9602]

Rob, It's a magic time having such a young child aint it. My Kimmy was just so special all the way up to 12. Then she became a teenager. We should be allowed to send teenagers off to some remote location till they come to realize their oldies ain't as stupid as they think. LOL. Oh and then when you get grandkids! That's even better. Mine are now all in primary school but the first two actually came to work here with their mums. That was the best of times. What do you think you'll be called as a grandfather? I am Offy. My kids thought of it and I love it. It's short for "Old Fart"!

[@gregnietsky]

Nice I got 2 100AH deep cycle gel batteries a 500W inverter that powers TV and routers via power over ethernet.... Backed up by a 10kva generator that is rated for 7kw.... Scheduled load shedding in a few minutes we periodically without power for upto 8 hrs a day.

[@IonianGarden]

The history of sunspots is interesting. Like Hale using the Zeeman effect to demonstrate that sunspots are magnetic.

[@volcanoimage]

Nice shots!

[@FrenchCrow]

Good job on that NASA shelf / cubby house 😂 (and amazing sun observation). Looks like Emma is still adorably playful, but not a baby girl anymore.

[@Wolfie6020]

Thanks, no she is growing fast and learning new words and phrases all the time. It sometimes surprises us how logically she thinks about things.

[@Trevor_Austin]

As the Sun’s diameter is 1.4 million kilometres, these things must bed mahoosive!

[@barryon8706]

Inconvenient timing with all the clouds here.

[@kellyd6195]

I’m curious, does the cooling mat just use fans or do they also include those thermoelectric heat sinks (I think they’re called “peltier” plates)?

[@Wolfie6020]

Just fans on this one. It was a cheap unit. I don’t really even need it as the laptop stays cool in the shade anyway but this is insurance on a hot day.

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Emma & Wolfie, Thanks to Grandad for Building an Awesome Cubby House & Thank you Emma for letting Daddy use your Cubby House to make his Cool video

[@miertjestoer9525]

The views are very similair as the Lunt .

[@fjbsolutions2446]

I also have the solarmax iii. What ocular were you using?

[@Wolfie6020]

The BF15. It works pretty well with the large sensor on the ZWO 294

[@joecooksey4331]

Screwed again by YT. Wait... it may be me.

[@Wolfie6020]

You are still the King Joe.

[@joecooksey4331]

@@Wolfie6020 LOL... send me a prize...LOL

[@12345.......]

Kids that age are great. Cute and curious, then they turn into teenagers.

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

Nope. You are wrong. It's definitely a cubby house.

[@requiem4adream87]

waiting for a flat earther to show up and claim its all CGI and fake

[@mikep9604]

Maybe Bob Knodel will appear and claim again that we have two suns.

[@drosophilamelanogaster4262]

👌

[@OzFPVflyer]

And to think we are in the Suns atmosphere.

[@vimalramachandran]

Beautiful! Solar Cycle 25 is underway now and it is expected to peak in 2025. So there will be more activity visible on the Sun going forward.

[@my3dviews]

I'll have to look at the sun after work with my solar telescope. Hopefully it won't be cloudy then.

[@neilyoung3446]

"Who's also on the Nasa payroll" Luv it

[@scott_meyer]

A slimmed down version of SkySafari 6 is available for free as Celestron Sky Portal.

[@markcaesar4443]

Hi Wolfie, I just had a thought you might be interested in: Considering the Earth spins West to East, wouldn't weight be different on a plane traveling the same route in different directions? Let's imagine Perth to Sydney and vice versa: A plane travelling from Perth to Sydney would be adding to the rate of rotation around the globe and therefore adding to the cetrifugal (centripedal?) force acting on it and a given weight would appear less than it would be while stationary. Conversly, a plane travelling from Sydney to Perth would be reducing the rate of rotation around the globe and therefore reducing the centrifugal (centripedal?) force acting on it and a given weight would appear greater that it would be while stationary. Could you take these measurements and show them in a video? I know it has been shown that weights are different at different latitudes for the same reason, I don't think I have seen this example of the difference in this particular eperiment. Thanks

[@osci08]

Pretty sure he's already done that, maybe 3-4 years ago, check his previous video's

[@0LoneTech]

This is known as the Eötvös effect.

[@david_akerman]

As the others said, yes this happens, it's a known effect, and Wolfie did do the test a while back. Flatties and geocentrists hate it.

[@Wolfie6020]

Hi Mark, Yes this is a good experiment and I tested it many times in the past on East and West flights. This video summarises the results nicely. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aabWmaOYl7Vlfpo Walter Bislin created a calculator for it too. walter.bislins.ch/bloge/index.asp?page=Centrifugal+and+Gravitational+Acceleration+in+an+Aircraft

[@robguyatt9602]

I have done the calcs for this. Yes, it is an effect. It can be measured but it's simpler just to apply the maths. The reason I did it some years ago was to answer that stupid Flatwit idea about sticking to the surface of a ball spinning at 1000 mph. If I recall, the centrifugal force on the stationary object at the equator is about 1/300 of the force of gravity. In other words, there's 1 unit of force trying to fling an object out into space but 300 units of force holding it to the surface of the earth. Now to answer your question, if you are in an aircraft traveling horizontally east to west at 1000 mph, then there is no net centrifugal force and the only force on you is gravity. On the other hand, if you travel west to east at the equator at 1000 mph, then your centrifugal force is double. The 1/300 becomes 1/150. I hope I got this correct. It's been a long time. LOL And yes it is more correct to talk of centripetal force but I'm just sticking with common usage.

[@gowdsake7103]

Can I ask how you managed to 1 get a colour image through the solar scope something my colour cameras just wont do. 2 how did you expose for surface detail and promanancies or have you managed an epic feat of composites

[@FrenchCrow]

It's hydrogen-alpha scope, allowing just hydrogen-alphalight to pass through and rejecting all other wavelengths.

[@gowdsake7103]

@@FrenchCrow I know that but its impossible on mine to use a colour camera mine I can only get an image on a B/w camera despite seeing the image perfectly with my eyes

[@Wolfie6020]

Do you use a normal camera or an astronomy camera? The raw images are in colour with the 294 ZWO camera. All I did here was increase contrast and stretch the colour tones to get even more contrast so the prominences are more visible.

[@gowdsake7103]

@@Wolfie6020 I have a Zwo ASI 120 MC-s and an SV bony neither of them can I get anything even close to an image I just bought an Altair GP black and white camera that focusses very well but I cannot image flares and surface detail at the same exposures

[@tubedude54]

The 'sun'!?! What is THAT!? LOL Haven't seen it in weeks!! This has got to be the worst yr ever for astronomy where I'm at... last time I even trained a telescope at the sun was some yrs ago when Venus transited it... I projected it on a white screen and watched it.

[@ignatprokhoropchyuck4652]

La grande@

[@KhreamedKhorne]

What is going on at 0:52?

[@Wolfie6020]

Those are passing clouds and the camera is trying to compensate to maintain a constant exposure value.

[@dawnellafreeman4860]

Film it with the Nikon p900 you will love it it works waaay better..You grandaughter will love seeing the sun with her own eyes, (not harmful). im shocked by how much better that Nikon works... PLEASE sell me yours if you don't use it anymore.. it's beautiful you honor those telescopes. Makes mine look like trash LoL. Sorry didn't mean anything by saying it works better . Obviously the time and skill that went into you dad's work is mind-blowing.. ( beautiful workmanship too) it's just the tech in computer era Is crazy.. we might just be simulations lol

[@Bnslamb]

The Nikon Coolpix P900 is just an ordinary camera that has a more powerful zoom than most cameras. It isn't built for astronomical observations. The Hydrogen Alpha Telescope is a dedicated telescope for observing the Sun.

[@CSXRobert]

The P900 works way better? No, definitely not. You can't even film solar prominences with a P900 or any other regular camera without a VERY expensive filter specifically for it (except during a full solar eclipse, where you can actually see prominences through an inexpensive white light solar filter). Looking at the sun with your bare eyes IS harmful, if you have any children or grand children PLEASE do not allow them to do that.

[@eMBO_Gaming]

Nikon P900 is a shitty consumer grade camera with sensor smaller than those in smartphones lol

[@ManyHeavens42]

everytime I get 💢 mad

[@misterocain]

Look at those flares. That damned Putin. Is nothing sacred?

[@AnotherKentPaul]

Wolfie6020. Freemason. Where did you get that fake sun storm animation from? What rubbish should that be? :^}

[@nebula6362]

They are Solar prominences which can also be seen during total solar eclipses why do you flatties lie?

[@ToxicTeemoOCE]

Considering the sun is only 32 miles wide, and 6000 miles away, not hard to get good images of it

[@Katy_Jones]

Please try to stay in the cutting edge of excuses, i mean science, everybody knows nobody knows what it is or how far away or big it is.. And sunlight isn't daylight now.

[@grahvis]

@Q Branch . Taking the distance it must travel in one hour and its angular speed of fifteen degrees per hour, its height comes out at about 7,350 miles high when over the Tropic of Cancer and 12,500 miles high when over the Tropic of Capricorn. Quite a difference. Flat earthers are too thick to realise their claims can be checked for plausibility.

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

Where's the FE measurements of the sun changing size?

[@dogwalker666]

Any evidence for that? How does such a pathetic sun put out so much energy? And how exactly do we get night time?

[@tjjones621]

You forgot your sarcasm marker... But if you were serious... you just proved the moon landings... In July 2014, China announced the development of its newest generation of ICBM, the Dongfeng-41 (DF-41), which has a range of 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles), capable of reaching the United States

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Wolfie. Get on Nathan Oakley channel and sort him out. He's ripping you new ones every which way atm 😀

[@muzikgod]

Nathan can't be sorted out, he's long gone. Nathan does this all the time, calling people out who have a lot of subs, as he hopes it will bring people to his dying channel.

[@Alysm-Aviation]

Nathan has been invited for debate on multiple occasions, he always makes excuses and runs.

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

Is he still begging for speaker money?

[@EBDavis111]

Could you give an example of Nathan ripping Wolfie a new one?

[@Wolfie6020]

LOL nobody cares about Nathan. I find it hilarous how triggered he got when I poked him a little on Brian’s channel. Nathan just hides behind his mute button but is afraid to face us on a neutral channel. Let him rant.

[@freefreepalestine360]

Our beautiful local Sun, performing the analemma 🙏

[@dogwalker666]

Funny

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

Odd how it doesn't change size like perspective says it should on FE.

[@throwawayavclubber7269]

That's the analemma?

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

@@freefreepalestine360 Have you bought Nathan new speakers yet?

[@dogwalker666]

@@freefreepalestine360 except we have thousands of pieces of evidence for earth rotation, Every gyro compass, every Gyro Theodolite, every single aircraft INS, Ask you pal Bob Knodel he discovered that the earth rotates, Ask FEcore they discovered rotation with the mechanical gyroscope, Oh and the antikatherra analogue calculator was designed with a slowly rotating globe as part of the mechanism, oopsies, Now where is your evidence? Anything? All we ever get from your cult is Crickets.

[@harvestworkers626]

There was zero proof of him or anyone else for that matter standing there filming the sun with that particular telescope, yet he expects everyone to believe he used that telescope because he showed a picture of one. People will fall for anything.

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

There are literally countless videos of that and you just want to dismiss all of them like this? Also if you really wanted you could probably get in contact with someone having such telescope. Oh and also Sun's corona could be seen during the eclipse, are you gonna dismiss this too?

[@meloney]

You can literally buy a coronado or other hydrogen alpha scopes....not that bright?

[@harvestworkers626]

@@meloney . . And your point is ???