The Dutch Observatory

Did not have much time, but wanted to see how 1191 and 93 were progressing.  AR 1193 is a beauty.

Captured a Halpha image of the sun today, but did not have more time.  AR1193 is quite active and 90 is approaching the western limb.

The bad storms that wrecked the southern/eastern part of the US have left.  Have a meeting today in Atlanta, so made a few images before I had to go.  Today an Ha and CaK image with a close up of a nice prominace at the western limb.

Was unable to image yesterday, and later this week we got some bad weather coming in.  Here the sun with AR1185, 86 and 90 with a new regions appearing at the eastern limb and a nice prominance at the Northern limb.

The sun on April 11.   Got to make these images before clouds started to interfere with imaging.  AR1185 and 86, with some nice prominances at the NW limb.

Today the sun showed some real nice prominaces on the NW limb.  As well as some nice defined regions in CaK.  I also spend time to capture a 1/2 hour of activity of these prominances.  Not much activity, but some nice little flares pop up.

The sun keeps developing more and more active regions and the fireworks coming from disturbances on the sun are abundant.  Here images from April 6th ad 7th with AR1183, 84, 85 and 86.

Yesterday I captured  10 minutes of activity of a bright prom at the SW limb of the sun.  The prom probably came from AR1176.  Since I thought the data was not good, I stopped after 10 minutes.  Today I took another look at the data and realized that it was much better than what I thought it was.  So here the animation of 10 minutes of solar activity. Click the image to link to the animation.

The weather forecast was wrong about the cloudy skies for yesterday and today, but the storm during the night was right on!!  It was pretty bad.  This morning still very windy but clear, so i limited the imaging to H-a only.  The prominance coming from 1176 is still visible at the western limb and some nice fireworks also at the eastern limb.  I wonder what is coming there. AR1183, 84 and 85 in these images.

Today the sun showed some very bright prominances, not very high but bright.  Did not have to do any or much on the gamma to get these.  AR1176 seems to be the source of the one at the western limb.  AR1183 and 84 more in the center.