The Dutch Observatory

Active Regions AR2216 is showing very nice already at 640 millionth, while 2209 dropped to 900.

Active Region 2209 increased in size a little today to 970 millionth.  The seeing was average so the close ups are not that great especially the Ha version of AR2209.  However some detail still can be seen.

Active Region 2209 dropped its size from 1100 to 930 millionth today.  Seeing was pretty bad so no close up images today.

Clear Skies with average seeing.  AR2209 has grown considerably and has now a size of 1100 millionth with a 26 sunspot count.  The layered  cold air made a WLContinuum not feasible today with the C11, but the 3x close up in Ha does look reasonable.  I might have to resort to the SVC90 for the visible light image.

Sunny skies again and for a change it was relative stable enough for a WLC close up, but not good enough for a crisp image.  Today AR2205 is dominant at 350 millionths and is shown at the peak of an M 2.3  flare in the close up.

Clear Skies again good enough for a full disk image and close ups of 2205 with a nice M2.3 flare and a nice prom, but not stable at all for WLC.

Sunny day again with a full disk image and two close ups in the morning,  and a special ISS-Sun transit image for the afternoon.  With the ISS image I did want to test the data transfer performance of the ASI120MM with my laptop.  Whereas I always lost a frame or two with the DMK21 even at 15 frames per second, the ASI ran at 54 frames per second and did not have any lost frames. For this image I did eliminate every other image in the AVI in order to reduce the processing time.  Very happy with this!

The Sun is a lot calmer than it was last week.  Only a few C class flares in 2205 and a nice prom at the West side.  The weather was too unstable for an WLC image.

The sky was very calm this morning with great transparency until the clouds started rolling in! I managed to capture another great shot of the largest spot in AR2192.  AR2192 has shrunk to 2380 today and the next two days will be clouds, so transparency will not be good.  After that the region will have “turned around the corner.”

Today AR2192 caused another X2.0 flare.  I noticed it when I checked the SM40 after finishing the visible light imaging, so I caught the end of the flare.  Today the sky was much more stable with relative good seeing, so I captured an image “Inside of the largest spot of AR2192″  The large filament in the northern hemisphere is beautiful.  AR2192 is growing again, today its at 2750 millionth.