AR 3695

Overview

This is of Active Region 3695 as it traveled across the Sun’s surface toward the limb (edge). This was captured around 5pm CT on Tuesday (6/4) and is only about 30 mins of capture time compressed into about 7 seconds and looped a handful of time. You can see a large prominence along the limb and a set of large arcing filaments swirling around the active region where you can make out the sunspots. Those filaments are the same thing as a prominence when looked at face-on. The small, spiky, dancing-looking things are called spicules, which are dense gas ejected from the solar surface. I did invert the image a bit to increase contrast. This was initially acquired in B&W and then color-corrected as well.