The Dutch Observatory

Clear skies with many contrails for below average seeing.  In the meantime we have three active regions, AR2799 popped up yesterday in the NW quadrant. Also a new plage is visible near the NE limb.  Today full disk images and close ups of the mentioned regions.

Clear skies with some thin clouds and below average seeing conditions.  The old plage AR2796 has completely decayed.  AR2797 shows some B-class activity.  The rest seems pretty stable.  Today images of the same areas I imaged in the last few days.

Clear skies again with average seeing.  The old AR2796 has even further decayed and the plage is very much breaking apart.  AR2797 has increased and now covers an area of 120 millionths.  The 2 filaments are still there but one of them has decayed some.  Today full disk images as well as close ups of the mentioned areas.

Clear Skies with good seeing.  The pores from a few days ago were very unstable and decayed very fast but a region AR2796 emerged a day later some further South-West from the location.  This area, AR2796 was also relative unstable and has decayed in the meantime to a plage.  However, a new Hsx area has turned onto the visible disk at the Eastern limb and measures 90 millionths with 2 spots. Today full disk images and close ups of the mentioned regions as well as a few nice filaments in the Southern hemisphere.

Clear skies after a long period of cloudy skies.  The Sun remains spotless today for day 11 in the current spotless streak.  Today full disk images only.

Clear skies and good seeing for a session to observe the spotless Sun.  Some nice filaments are still to see in the southern and northern hemisphere and some nice prominences around the solar disk in Ha.  Today full disk images again.

Clear skies today, and the next few days as well!  However, the spots have disappeared and the Sun is spotless again.  This means we are counting spotless days again. A nice prominence is showing in the NW as shown on the Ha image.  Today only full disk images in the three wavelengths.

Scattered clouds this morning with variable seeing.  AR2794 has rotated to the far side of the Sun and AR2795 has decayed to a plage, so there is not much to report at the time of my observation. The big question is: will SWPC report tomorrow the first spotless day of 2021?  Only time will tell, so for today only full disk images in the three wavelengths.

Clear skies with below average seeing.  AR2794 remains stable and AR2795 shows some decay.  Total spot count today is 6.  Today images of the full disk as well as close ups of the mentioned areas in the three wavelengths.

Clear skies, but the observing session  was a race against the clouds, which are covering the sky now.  The Sun shows very little activity in both areas with the exception of a few B-Class flares.  Today full disk images and close ups in the three wavelengths.