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The active Sun
Mark Johnston from Scottsdale, Arizona
Prominences and filaments snake across this 6-panel mosaic of the Sun in inverted Hα taken March 13 with a 4-inch Lunt telescope. Each panel is 200 stacked frames (out of 2,000).