January 8, 2014 on 2:10 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Finally for today the full disk images of the 8th in H-alpha.  6 Active regions with AR1944, which has grown to 1560 millionth and two regions without flare activity. In addition 1946 and 1947 have taken over the activity from AR1944 and have produced numerous M and even X flares over the last few days.

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January 8, 2014 on 1:13 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

These images are from the same imaging session as in my previous post.  This shows the Sun’s active region 1944 in three different sizes.  Captured with the SVC80 with white light and green filters and different barlows.  I am longing for the jet stream to leave us alone for a while.   The first image shows also AR1943 and the larger images were captured as 1280×960.

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January 8, 2014 on 9:59 am | In Sun | Comments Off

Clear Skies on the 8th.  Spend a lot of time a little below freezing to image the Sun in H-Alpha as well as visible light with green filter.  The skies were stable enough to let me image at 1600mm but the C11 had to stay inside.  Here a nice comparison of the same area on the Sun with Active Region 1944 using the SolarMax40 and the Stellarvue SVC80 with some nice details even extending in the umbra.  The size of AR 1944 is huge at 1560 millionth and one can easily make out the two largest spots with the naked eye using eclipse glasses..

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