The Dutch Observatory

The sky is clearing up enough for a few full disk images.  Seeing still around 6/10.  The Sun’s activity is still very low with no flares in the last two days.  3 Active regions today with 9 sunspots covering 60 millionths.  Very quiet!

The Sun on 2015-09-04.  Relative stable sky today with seeing 7/10.  The Sun is quiet today again with two active regions AR2409 and AR2410, 7 Sun spots covering a mere 40 millionths.  Flare activity has also been very quiet with no flares in the last two days.  The most noticeable features today are the few filaments stretching out in the SE quadrant of the Sun and a few faint prominences. Today again three full disk images in the three different wavelengths.

A Quiet Sun again.  Three active regions with a total spot area of 90 millionths , 19 Spots and no flares in the last two days.  So today again only full disk images in the three wavelengths with 6/10 seeing conditions through wide bands of contrails and thin clouds..

Finally the Sun out again for my Solar imaging session.  The Sun is very quiet today with no flares in the past two days. 4 Regions are reported with two of them showing a size of 0. The total sunspot area for today is 40 millionths with a total spot count of 10.  Today, I am showing a full disk image for Ha, CaK and 540nm and look for the two active regions with a size of 20 each.

I had good hopes that the seeing would be great, but was disappointed with 6/10.  Today AR2404 has disappeared pretty much, but AR2403 has increased to 1190millionths  and contains 4o spots.  Flare activity is medium with 14 C-class flares in the last two days.  Today again a mixture of Ha and 540nm filtered images.

Seeing not as good as yesterday 6.5/10.  Captured a full disk image and a close up of AR2403 both in Ha with the SM40, and 540nm with the SVC80.  The Sun’s activity is medium today following 2 M-class and 15 C-class flares yesterday.  AR2403 has increased again and is now 930 millionths which accounts for almost all Sun Spot areas today.  Spot count for today is 51 down from 73 yesterday.

Finally, the clouds are mostly gone, but the temp at after one was 99.9 degrees when I took the measurement for my analemma project.  The sun’s total sunspot area increased 370 millionths from 420 yesterday to 790 today of which AR2403 covers already 760 by itself.  Activity is high and AR2403 at this time has already produced two M-Class flares today.  Sunpots have increased from 52 to 73.  The seeing was very good today 8/10, so I spend some time capturing WLC filtered images on the SVC as well as the C11.  The sky was calm enough to let me capture a close up again with very nice detail, this time of the “following” sunspot in AR2403.

Thin high broken clouds today.  I did only capture full disk images, since I was running short of time.  The Sun today is quiet with AR2396 having turned to the far side of the Sun and AR23400 and 2401 are real small.  Total Spot area today is 160 millionths with 16 spots, although 4 C-class took care of some activity.

Clear and calm skies this morning. AR2396 has passed its maximum size and covers 710 millionths while the other regions account for 60. Total Sunspot count for today is 37 and flare activity is low with only one C-Class fare in the past two days. Today a full disk image as well as a close up of AR2396 in the three wavelengths I have equipment for.

Clear Skies this morning and used all my scopes for solar imaging, including the C11.  Flare activity on the Sun is very low again with no flares in the last two days.  Total Sunspot area covers 270 millionths over 23 Sunspots.   Active regions have increased to 6, AR2389, 90, 91, 92, 93 and 94.  Full disk images in H-alpha as well as WL/Continuum on the SVC80 and the C11.  Two close ups also in CaK with the PST.