January 15, 2012 on 1:34 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Another day with great seeing.  The giant prominence from yesterday afternoon is gone and a new one seems to be building in the area of AR1399, of which I have a closeup today.  1401 and 1402 are just coming around the Western limb and are pretty active.  Could make a nice view this week.  Today also a Calcium-K image and an inverted version, made with the Scope I received with the Jon Wood Award from the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project.

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January 14, 2012 on 5:46 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

The color scheme I tried yesterday did not work out as I liked.  Too bright and hard to see details, so I am back to my old scheme for the moment.  We had an outreach event today and did not have much time to image.  Had to attend to the visitors.  Made one full disk image of the sun, but I wish I had more time.  A beautiful prominence at the South Western limb.  Two hours later SDO showed a great display, but I am happy I have what I got.  Today a full disk image with a new sunspot showing up 1398 and a large prom.

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January 13, 2012 on 4:39 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

My hopes for today were a nice arching prominence or CME.  But the sun decided different.  Still AR1391,93,and 95 in the Northern hemisphere.  We had very strong winds and freezing temperatures at the time of my imaging, which made it too unstable to image a closeup prominence or filament.  I have a question today.  I processed the image in two color schemes.  The orange one comes closer to the A1A images from SDO, but I don’t know if I like it. It becomes much harder to see detail I believe.  Let me know what you think.

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January 12, 2012 on 2:51 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Cloudy during the night and cloudy now, but for a short while, some breaks in the clouds, just enough to let me image the sun for today.  The activity in the Southern hemisphere from last week is gone.  We have a few active regions in the northern half.  The nice big prominence at the SE rim from yesterday as shown by SDO went before last night, but the nice “caterpillar” rolling prominence reported by Kevin Ty at the Eastern limb is still there, with a faint but nice looping prom to the north of it.  Today a full sun image, and a closeup of the prominence at the eastern limb.

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January 11, 2012 on 10:05 pm | In Outreach | Comments Off

Yesterday I received an email from a Social Circle resident who was looking for someone to help his daughter with a Middle School project on Constellations.  Well, that email came to the right person.  Tonight Hannah’s family, together with her friend Taylor, were over at the Dutch Observatory to talk about Constellations. Unfortunatly it was overcast and they did not get to see what we discussed, but the planetary program on the PC gave a good indication of what they would have seen.  I guess they went home with a lot more than they bargained for.  :-)   I believe they will do well with this project. :-)

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January 6, 2012 on 4:36 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Today the last day before the clouds roll in again and very stable clear skies.  AR1386 has rotated to the backside and 1391 is rotating nice in view with some small but bright flares to make it interesting  The prom at the Eastern limb is still there but now is seen as an  arching area a little lighter than the surface detail just of the limb in the direction of AR1391.  On the SE limb a pretty high but faint prominance (you need to look pretty close).  Today the full sun with a closeup of AR1391.

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January 5, 2012 on 2:26 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

I did extract the frames of the eruptive prominence I captured on the 29th, which started the CME, from the SDO archive and combined them with my video clip showing the eruption. Please note that the Field of View of SDO does not extend as far out as it is shown in my video, showing how the density fades quickly.  give the clip a few seconds to load before playing.

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January 5, 2012 on 1:14 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

The prominence close to AR1391 is still there today but the  prominences at the SE limb are mostly gone.  Today a full disk image of the sun as well as a closeup of 1391 with the prominence at the Eastern limb.  AR1391 did not show as active today  yesterday, but in a few days we will see what’s causing the large prom.

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January 4, 2012 on 12:35 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Today’s Sun showed a very nice line up of a number of prominences at the Eastern/South Eastern limb.  The Prom near 1391 was very nice and arching, so I made a closeup of the lineup.  Also an animation of 1/2 hour of activity, but movement is very slow.  today’s Active Regions: 1386,88,89,90,and 91.

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January 4, 2012 on 9:28 am | In Sun | Comments Off

Today’s sun, 2012-01-03, with AR1386,88,89,90,and 91. The seeing was still very poor so the close up could use a lot of improvement. 1 Hour before, SDO showed a nice prom which was gone by the time I could start imaging.

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