The Dutch Observatory

January 2, 2012 on 4:56 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Yesterday New Year was cloudy.  Today very windy with 30mph winds, and I had Lesly Edwards and her dad come by for lesson one to learn to image the sun.  Lesly is a very clever 10 year old 5th grader running her telescope at the field like a pro.  But about this later.  Today only a full disk image of the sun and yes, I missed the 14:45 UT tripple blast from AR1384 as caught by SDO.  I know I should have made the walls of the observatory lower, so the sun cleared them earlier…  But AR 1388 and 89 are full of sparkles too.