The Dutch Observatory

September 1, 2011 on 6:24 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Today the day started with clear skies, except in the Eastern Sky I saw clouds, so I imaged as soon as the sun cleared the trees in the East.  Today 8 active regions on the surface with not much activity, however, except for the surprise I got when during the imaging of AR1277, 79 and 82, a shadow flew thrug the image.  First I thought it was a bird, but analizing after the set was finished, it appeared to be an airplane.  Finally!!  You have to realize that I live in the Eastern Departure path of ATL, and turbulence of many planes has played havoc with some of my planetary images.  However, never did a plane cross the image on the chip, except today.  I could not hear or see the plane but it was flying from the North/South.  Here the images of the sun.  I will need to extract the images with the plane from my PC, on which I image, and post them later.