The Dutch Observatory

A quiet sun today with a nice display of prominences at the SE limb.  Only one small flare since midnight.  Wonder what tomorrow holds in store for us when we go to East Newton Elementary School

Yesterday the 25th, was pretty cloudy except for the beginning and the evening.  I captured these images of the sun yesterday hid morning.  A nice display of prominences at the SE limb.  Flare activity is not high at this time.

Cloudy skies on the 21st, but I was able to catch a picture of the sun through some clouds.  Not much activity but still some nice features visible.

Broken skies today but managed to get a few images, however, through thin clouds.  AR1548 was active yesterday, but today it only showed two C-class flares so far.  Today a full disk image with AR1543,46,47,48, and 49, and a closeup of the last three.

A similar Sun today as yesterday.  But new activity is emerging.  A new Active Region is emerging at 18N88E and had several flares today up to an M2.4 which started flaring just when I finished my imaging  and was packing away my equipment.   Today’s images in H-alpha and Calcium-K

Yesterday we started a new Carington rotation 2127. The previous CR2126 started calm with 2 Active regions, but than intensified in the middle of the rotation cycle and ended relatively calm again.  So today we have a calm sun with AR1543 showing some pretty but little activity and a nice prominence at the NW rim, and a few nice curved filaments as well at the SE quadrant and close to AR1542.

The remnant of the large filament of a week ago has now reached the western limb of the sun and displays itself as a very nice prominence.  Active region 1543 has become a very nice structure, and the bridge has formed very nicely.  A very nice sun to observe today.

Rain/Clouds for the last three days.  however, the clouds disappeared during the night for the Perseids Meteor shower.  About 20 people at the Jon Wood Field at CE last night.  This morning a nice sun with some prominence activity and a very nice AR1543, with a bridged sunspot.  Today a full disk image and two closeups of 1543.

Variable clouds today and I had to wait an hour to catch a hole big enough to make these two images.  The huge filament of the 5th has decayed severely.  Compare the two images on my blog.  AR1542 is cracling with C-class flares and 1532 is about to rotate to the backside.

Today, a thin layer of clouds obstructed my imaging session, however, I am very happy with the result.  A large number of active regions with small flares crackling in major areas especially in the 1538-41 groups.  In addition to a looping prominence, the filament North of the areas 1538 – 1541 propelled yesterday a massive CME into the solar system, but it still is a beautiful majestic structure.