The Dutch Observatory

Three days of the Mercury, Venus and Jupiter conjunction taken from the Jon Wood Field at Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center and the last image from Flint Hill elementary School, Oxford GA. 

A very calm day, ready for a few closeups with the C11.  With 5 active regions, the sun did not pick up activity and the large filament streching over 200,000 miles is still there.  I made closeups of 1755 and 1756.  Very nice stuctured and nice granulation, but not large compared to some of the spots in the last weeks.  Anyway an interesting sun today.

Another nice day.  Today a large filament extending for more than 200,000 miles accross the North Western quadrant.  In addition a few nice small proms, active regions and sunspots.

Another day with 7 active regions.  Today 3 C class flares and 2 B class.  It looks like the sun os taking as breather.  Both groups 54, 56 and 53, 55 look great.  Today a full disk image and a closeup of the two double groups as well as a nice Prom at the NE limb.

A nice Sun today with 7 active regions.  In the last 24 hours a total of 7 C class flares of which 3 came from 1756.  Also a few nice prominences, processed normally and inverted.

Went in the morning to scout an outreach site for the end of September, so got a late start today. So far today 5 low C class flares and one M5.0 flare in 1745.  A full disk image today and a close up of 1754, and 56.

After missing several days with imaging, today a few images before the clouds came in.  The Sun is not as active as last week.  In fact in the last two days we had only two M-class flares in 1753.  1748 Has been producing a number of C class flares but nothing like last week.  Today a full Sun image with 7 active regions: 1744, 45, 46, 48, 50, 53 and 54 as well as closeups of 1753 and 54.

Today the first day of CR2137.  The Sun has been getting very active again.  Yesterday with 9 active regions, today 8.  I had the time for closeups of 1745,  46, 47 and 48.  1748 looks so innocent, but it is producing a number of M and X class flares.

Yesterday I intended to make a few images during an outreach program.  Brought my table but forgot the DMK and missed the huge prominence.  Today brought it and was able to sneak in the time to make one image.  1748 is the region that produces the M class and X class flares. (Left at the rim) Note that the orientation of the Sun today is different thasn my normal orientation (Did not correct for the Alt/Az at the outreach program).

Finally a sunny day and no outreach.  Today the sun was very busy with 10 active regions and some of them showed some nice activity.  AR1744 and 45 are turning nice in view and might develop into something special in the next few days.  Today also a close up of AR1744 and 45 made using the C11 and my 3.8 Baader filter with an additional green filter.