The Dutch Observatory

A real quiet Sun today.  The prominence from yesterday has disappeared.  Today the Sun with AR1374,75,76,77 and 80. 

A quiet sun at first glance, but a faint prominence at the eastern limb made it pretty interesting.  Not enough time to make an animation today because of our chapter meeting.  Today a full Sun with AR1374, 75, 76, 77.

Following watching the grazing of the sun of comet Lovejoy last night, today’s sun is not very exciting.  AR1376 keeps growing and when I was watching Lovejoy last night I saw a small flare in AR1377.  Today a full disk image as well as a closer up of AR1376.

A clear sky today before the clouds and rain come again later today. A full disk image of the sun with AR1366, 74, 75, 76, and 77, with a closeup of the Eastern limb and a few filaments.  Active Region 1376 is developing in a very nice and big region!

Today the sky was filled with high cirus clouds and had to image through this mess.  I area of relative thin clouds allowed me to come up with this image today.  However, too cloudy for Registax 6 to run correctly.  today’s regions AR1366,67,74,75, and 76.

Following a day of cloudy skies, the sun showed his face again.  Today, at the beginning of Carington Rotation 2118,  in addition to the active regions 1366,74 and 75 a large new active region to be named.  The prominences at the western limb are not very tall but I observed a small flare as it grew and collapsed. 

Thin cumulus clouds streaking by the sun today with the result that I was unable to use the data captured for the very low proms today.  Registax 5 even had problems with that data today.  The full sun disk image does show a relative quiet sun today.

Faint clouds moved through this morning making for unstable skies, but good enough to image the Sun.  A set of prominences at the Western limb and one at the SE limb.  Full sun image and closeup of the western limb.

This morning the sky was clear, but a little unstable.  But sufficient time to find a slot where it was relative steady.  Today an whole disk image of the sun with AR1362,63,64,66,72,74 and 75 and a closeup of the Eastern limb of the sun with a nice prominence.  A pretty busy sun

The first day in a while where the clouds were on the way out.  However, during the 1 hour session, it was hard to find sufficient frames of quality to come up with a decent image.  Barely made it for a regular image of the sun.  Hope that tomorrow it will be a lot better.