The Dutch Observatory

I managed to create an animated movie of the solar activity around AR1514, and 15 from yesterday.  Somehow jpg’s created on one of my PCs creates a file which is incompatible with Registax that’s why i had so much trouble yesterday.  The animation is a 60 minute activity compressed in a few seconds.  This sequence is repeated 5 times to let you better observe what’s happening.  The opening scene is the end of an M-class flare west of  1514.  Than the activity shifts over to between 1514 and 1515 for a small flare.  Finally a larger flare erupts to the south of 1515.  Also, look at the nice filament in the south east of the region.  Very nice movement! Click the image below to go to the movie, and wait a minute or so to let it load.

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.