Solar Prominences back to normal

Using a DMK21 camera fitted with a short nosepiece and the lens assembly from a Cemax 2x Barlow, a PST H-alpha solar scope was used to obtain these images. They have been colourised to represent the wavelength of light being used:

There was little activity on the solar disk with just a few small prominences on the limb.

A hand-held afocal image was taken with a Fujifilm F-450 compact camera in B/W mode. The image has been colourised after levels ajustments and unsharp masking in The Gimp to represent the red of H-alpha:

Filaments and surface granulation structure can be seen in this image. This shows that even simple equipment can be used to record images.

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