Here are some composite images showing both the prominences and the solar surface. To do this you have to take two exposusers: In order to capture a prominance, the suns surface is fully oververeposed so it is a solid white disk wit no surface detail. I then drop the camera back to a 1/1000th second exposure to capture the surface details. In post production both images are merged. The first image is the full disk. The second is a close up of the prominence you can just make out in the 8:00 position.

I am considering upgrading the camera to a more high resolution camera. The GSTAR EX is a good camera and has lots of nice features to allow me to occlude the solar disk and bring out the detail in the prominences, or highlights surface detail, etc. However it is a standard format video camera and I feel that you need a higher definition camera to capture more detail on the surface.