The Dutch Observatory

Cloudy skies today.  Conditions were very bad to image.   After the full sun image there was no time for closeups left.  The large prominence from yesterday at the eastern limb has turned to the front of the sun and has become a filament.  The large prom at the western limb has turned further to the back side and can hardly be seen today and AR1415 is following it close. 

Clear Skies with nice conditions but a bit windy.  AR1413 still seems to be active based on the nice prominence shown at the western limb.  AR1414 is showing some activity now and AR1410 still shows some flares.  Today a closeup of  both the eastern and western limbs with some nice proms.

A new Carington Rotation started on the 6th, so here my first image in the new rotation.  Active regions 1410 and 13 are turning to the backside of the planet and are still crackling with C and M class flares.  Will it become quiet for a few days, or is the prominence at the eastern limb an indication for some new activity?  We’ll find out!

Today was not a good day for imaging.  A thin layer of clouds covered the entire sky and casted a high contrast moving image on the chip, making it hard to focus and get good data.  Several of the data sets I took resulted in bad images.  Only one half good one.  Prominence activity is still very low and the active regions 1410,11 and 13 are moving steadily further west.

Clearing skies, with high winds.  However, seeing was still pretty good.  Today only a full disk image of the sun.  The bigger active regions are moving to the west side of the disk and almost no prominence activity to see today.

Cloudy day, but caught a brief preriod of thin, high altitude clouds only, sufficient for my normal imaging session.  Still lots of sunspots.  Not much activity or chances for large flares or proms.  Stabilty and seeing was very good today, so the closeup of AR1410/13 is very nice. 

Mostly cloudy skies today with a few small breaks in between them.  It was not enough to capture the prominences today, but I managed to capture 700 frames (stop and go), sufficient to produce this image.  There are more sunspots now, but the activity is still relative low at the earth side of the sun.  

A clear sunny day again.  It seems a bit quiet, but if you look closer at the region1408/10 there are a good number of little flares.  Also in the southern hemosphere there are two large structured areas. The prominence at the western limb has disappeared, probably turned to the back of the sun. Today a full disk and closeup of AR1410/13.

A nice clear day again to image the sun.  Only two major active regions 1408 ans 1410.  It seemed more quiet than yesterday, but I observed a few small flares around AR1410.  A nice prominence at the western limb made a nice display.  Today a full disk image and a closeup of regions 1410 and 1408.

A clear day again to image.  It turned out that when I was imaging the closeup of active region group 1410 this morning, a C1 flare erupted.  It is exciting to see how much activity we have had this week even if the number of sunspot groups has gone down. It seems that the active regions are getting stronger in activity.