The Dutch Observatory

The Halloween Sun.  Today the sun looked relative quiet, but it still shows a few nice active regions and prominences.  The sun has not produced a C class flare in 2 days, but today 1596 as well as 98 produced each one in addition to a few B class flares so far.  The Northern hemisphere has been quiet and most of the action takes place on the southern half.  Today a full disk image and closeups of the 2 prominences.

Hurricane Sandy caused cloudy skies for a few days.  Today a clear sky, but very bad seeing in the morning.  In the afternoon went to GPC to  meet Joe Seymore, who is a professor at Perimeter College for Solar imaging.  The seeing was a lot better at that time.  I am showing both images.  The second one was captured using an SM60 and is North to the right and East to the bottom.

Three beautifull active regions today Ar1506,98,99 as well as a nice prominence at the SE limb and a few nice articulated filaments.

5 Active regions today.  Both 1596 and 99 are growing.  Very nice view.  Also a nice prominence at the SE limb and several filaments strech accross several regions.

A nice sun today with  5 active regions visible to us.   In addition to the full disk image, today a closeup of AR1598 who has been pretty active in the last few days and  released some C flares today . 

Activity has picked up.  Yesterday late, 1596 released an M class flare and very early today, AR1598 send an X 1.8 flare into space.  Some smaller prominences are visible mainly at the eastern limb.

Bright skies again today.  The prominences of yesterday are gone with the exception for some small lingering proms.  The active regions are still there in full display.  Great view, even without the proms. Today a closeup of 1596.

Yesterday’s double prominence was reduced today to a single, but still very impressive.  In addition the active regions still look very nice and especially 1596 shows a lot of activity. 

A beautifull sun today with some real nice stuctures around AR1593 and 96.  In addition, two large arching prominences at the Western limb.  A very nice view to observe.

Sunny sky today but very unstable and bad seeing.  Today the sun shows a number of new prominences at the Eastern limb, indication that some new activity is coming up.  The Stereo “B”ehind satellite seems to confirm this.  A full disk image today and closeup of AR1596.