The Dutch Observatory

First Light for my new camera, an ASI174MM.  The first session was a little disappointing.  Being used to the resolution and the small pixel size of the ASI120MM, the ASI174MM needs some re-adjusting my processes, so we will see where it leads.  The Sun had an M-class flares yesterday and this morning around 5:00 UT another M7.9 flare.  Activity is medium.  One Active Region today and 2371 has decayed to 29 spots covering an area of 740 millionths.  It was hot and humid so I kept my session short with one full disk image and a close up of the AR2371 area with some nice proms at the limb.

The day after Solstice, clear skies with great seeing.  Because of the stable skies I brought the C11 out, except that Atlanta Air Traffic Control had to send a few planes my way to muddy up the stable skies  a bit.  Today’s session only with the C11 and shows hi res images of AR2371 and 67 at 2800mm and 5600mm.  The first two images show the regions with nice fibrils reaching out of the spots and nice granulation.  The following images show in hi-res the leading spot of AR2371 and the following spots.  Nice light bridges and fibrils extend every where.

Yesterday was the Summer Solstice and I did retrieve the pinhole camera to see what I recoded during the last 6 months.  Here the Solargraph at the back of my house again.

It was difficult to capture this morning because of the clouds, but did capture some H-a as well as white light/continuum images.  Active Region 2371 has broken the 1000 mark and is at 1020 millionth today.  Flare activity is also high and total sun spots are at 54.  Full disk image in H-a and Close ups of AR2367 and 71 in H-a as well as in Continuum.

Broken clouds this morning, but a few holes were big enough for some solar captures.  The Sun shows 2 Active Regions and the sunspots in AR2371 have increased to 810 millionths.  and AR2367 is still at 300.  Total sunspots today at  54.   Flare activity is high with 1 M-class and 33 C-class flares in the last two days.  Today a full disk image in H-a and white light/continuum images of AR2367 as well as AR2371

Clear Skies with good seeing before the thunderstorms.  The Sun’s flare activity is high with 4 M-Class flares and 10 C-Class flares in the last two days.  5 Active Regions today with a total of  44 Sunspots covering 940 millionths. Very few prominences, but some nice filaments show.  AR2371 seems to get pretty active by producing 2M-Class and 4 C-Class flares itself and looks impressive.  Today close up images in 3 different wavelengths as well as a full disk image in H-a.

My last images for Carington Rotation 2164, which comes to an end today.  5 Active Regions today with  37  spots covering 680 millionths.  The Sun’s flare activity is medium with 17 C-Class flares in the last 2 days.  The Sun shows some nice filaments and some prominences as well.  Today close ups of both 2367 and the new 2371 in white light, Calcium-K and h-alpha.  To note is that 2371 shows very nice the Wilson effect and the WLC images again show some nice granulation.

Clear Skies with great seeing this morning.  The Sun’s activity is medium with 8 C-class flares in the last two days and  6 Active Regions, 47 Sunspots, covering 520 millionths. An unnamed region at the Eastern limb is seen active with small flares and a nice prominence at the limb next to it, as well as some nice filaments make for a nice Sun today. The close up through using the WL-Continuum filter shows for some nice granulation again.

Sunny day with temperatures in the 90s.  The Sun’s activity is medium with 7 Active Regions, 47 sunspots covering 550 millionths,  1 M-class flare and 9 C-class flares in the last two days.  Active Region 2367 has developed in a nice complex area and deserves some close ups again today.  The seeing and transparency has been good lately so I can include some images in Whitelight/Continuum showing some nice granulation.

Today a clear day, which started off with a haze but the sky became relative stable with good seeing.  Today is one of 4 days in a year where at local Noon the Sun stands due South so the equation of time is 0 (difference between Solar time and “Clock” time).  No this is not at 12 o’clock or at one o’clock daily light savings time, but for my location this was  at exactly 35 minutes, 37 seconds after one o’clock.  The Sun’s activity is medium with 2 M-Class flares and 16 C-class flares in the last two days.  All but two came from AR2360 which is just turning to the “back side” of the Sun. 37 Sunspots covering 610 millionths in 6 Active Regions.  The Continuum filtered images show some nice granulation today.