The Dutch Observatory

Today has been again a great day for solar activity.  So far, 11 M-class flares have been reported 9 of which were in 1515 and 2 in 1514.  Not to mention the number of total flares.  Despite the heat, I decided to spend an hour imaging from 13:28 till 14:28 UT and imaged three flares, of which only one was included in the offical tally.  I had terrible problems creating the movie in Registax, so decided to at least publish a few images, including a set of four images of the one hour session.  The movie will follow later.

July 4th!!  Independance Day!  today the sun continued to produce some nice flares and particularily 1515 has been producung them at a rapid rate.  Including some M class flares.  three very nice filaments in the SE quadrant and the areas in the northern hemisphere also have not done bad.  A number of prominences today all around the solar disk.

Early this morning the sky was clear. AR1515 has been very active over the last 24 hours with a few M class flares, the largest being an M5.6. In addition many C class flares. A very active sun. My attempt to make an animation again did not work, since clouds started to interfere. today a full disk image with some nice active regions, filaments and prominences. In addition a closeup of the group in the northern hemisphere of AR1513, 14, 15 and 17.

I have been “borrowing” the Clear Sky Chart from Hard Labor Creek Observatory for my blog site, since my location was so close to theirs.  Now after the move, its different, and since yesterday I have my own Clear Sky Chart for the location of The Dutch Observatory.  Thanks to Attilla Danko, A. Rahill and the Canadian Meteorological Center to make this possible