The Dutch Observatory

Clear Skies with nice conditions but a bit windy.  AR1413 still seems to be active based on the nice prominence shown at the western limb.  AR1414 is showing some activity now and AR1410 still shows some flares.  Today a closeup of  both the eastern and western limbs with some nice proms.

A new Carington Rotation started on the 6th, so here my first image in the new rotation.  Active regions 1410 and 13 are turning to the backside of the planet and are still crackling with C and M class flares.  Will it become quiet for a few days, or is the prominence at the eastern limb an indication for some new activity?  We’ll find out!

Today was not a good day for imaging.  A thin layer of clouds covered the entire sky and casted a high contrast moving image on the chip, making it hard to focus and get good data.  Several of the data sets I took resulted in bad images.  Only one half good one.  Prominence activity is still very low and the active regions 1410,11 and 13 are moving steadily further west.

Clearing skies, with high winds.  However, seeing was still pretty good.  Today only a full disk image of the sun.  The bigger active regions are moving to the west side of the disk and almost no prominence activity to see today.

Cloudy day, but caught a brief preriod of thin, high altitude clouds only, sufficient for my normal imaging session.  Still lots of sunspots.  Not much activity or chances for large flares or proms.  Stabilty and seeing was very good today, so the closeup of AR1410/13 is very nice.