Prominences and a tiny sunspot

I first of all took an afocal shot through a 15mm eyepiece with a Fuji -F-450 compact camera in B/W mode with the H-alpha PST:

This showed the largest prominence which I then imaged with a DMK 21AS camera fitted with an ultra short nosepiece and the lens assembly from a 2x Coronado Cemax Barlow. Exposures were taken to show the prominence and disk separately and were then combined into a single image with Andrew Sprott’s Solar-Layers software:

Then the DMK was placed at the prime focus of a Ca K-line PST to image much of the solar disk and reveal the tiny sunspot that has recently emerged as well as some of the chromospheric network:

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