Using a Coronodo refractor and a Hydrogen-alpha filter Steve has taken some great images not seen by standard solar filters.
He has even had a very nice promince image puvblished in The Coronodo advertisement in Sky & Telescope.
All pictures were taken afocal with an Olympus 3000z digital camera.

July 20, 2003  July 20, 2003 at Pawnee

Dec. 2001 Partial Eclipse, at Pawnee Prairie Grasslands,

Sepia Streamer (~12/07/02)

At 05:27 PM 9/25/01 -0700, Steve wrote:
  Sol was very active this day. Many huge prominences and a few flares.
Took a few shots and here are a couple. I'm on the lookout for an aurora tonight.

 The one of Saturn's occultation was taken through a 16" Newtonian
at 322 power (19mm panoptic with 3x barlow). This one turned out
pretty good. The few I took of the disk behind the edge were to blurred
from the brightness of the moon.

These were taken a few minutes a part in color and in a setting called Sepia.
Another Fine Promince in Sepia tone
Nice Promince & sunspots (~12/07/02)

   A nice Loop Prominice (~06/02/03)

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