The Dutch Observatory

Another Sunny day.  The prominence I imaged yesterday has turned to the backside of the Sun or disappeared, but several nice prominences are visible today.  I selected the one at the south eastern limb for the closeup today.  It is faint but nicely formed at the time I did image it.  At the opposite limb another dense prom was also visible. 

Today the dark filaments which surrounded AR1355. and 56 start to show up as prominences at the western limb of the sun as a long streched hedge row prom.  Some nice prominences are forming and extending in the NE quadrant of the FOV.  Not much activity but nice view to observe.

I was wondering this morning if the large prominence was still visible at the eastern limb.  See how lucky I was yesterday to see it,  today it was gone.  The sun looked a lot quieter without these massive plama towers.  Today a whole disk image and a closeup of the prom/filament around AR1363

It has been over a week since I could image the sun because of the time involved seeing the Curiosity launch. But when I saw the sun this morning I could not believe my eyes about the size of the prominence at the eastern limb. Absolutely breath taking at about 7 times the size of earth!  Also the sunspots about to leave the sun are surrounded by some nice filaments. Great to see the sun is still very active

Today the skies were cloudy but around noon they broke a little. Enough to get a whole disk image in, but not enough to image the filament closeupin addition.  The trees to the south west started to cast their shadows on the image.  I could see the needles of the pinetrees move accross the image.  So today only a full disk image normally processed and inverse

Clear skies today. A beautiful view to see the large filament streching out over 500,000 miles accross the surface of the sun. Wow would I like to image this if/when it collapses. Also the trio 1351, 53, 54 makes a nice eastern limb and processed inverted, they look “3D”. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow will bring.

The sun is out again at the Dutch Observatory. Life is good!!! The face of the sun has changed a lot since my last imaging session. A full image today and closeups of the Eastern and Western limbs. 7 Active regions AR1341, 42, 43,  46, 47, 50 and 51 with a nice view of the proms and the filaments close to the rim.

This morning we had clouds moving through which gave me time to work on my animation of the SE prom from yesterday.  I made first a movie, but could not get the fps right to see it right, so went through an additional step and made an animated gif.  Shown is the 45 minute movement in the prom compressed in a few seconds.  Please let it load to see the proper motion.

The Proms on the Eastern limb were still there today, allowing me to capture sufficient data to make a 45 minute animation when I have time to process this.  Here the full disk image with closeups of the Proms.

The sun made a very dramatic display today with three large prominences and an almost 500,000 mile long filament.  A closeup of the filaproms is very dramatic. I wish I could have spend more time imaging today, but we had an outreach event.