The Dutch Observatory

High Cumulus clouds and con-trails made for difficult imaging this morning.  Seeing at times 4/10.  The Sun’s activity is low today with 3 C-class flares in the last two days and 3 Active Regions, 2462, 63  and 64,  Total spot area today is at 170 millionths and spot count at 11.  Seeing only allowed full disk images and I had to resort to Registax5 for stacking the  Ha runs.

Clear Skies today with seeing of 4/10 this morning.  Did not have much time but sufficient for three full disk images and two regions.  The Sun shows two Active Regions AR2462 and 63 covering a total spot area of 120 millionths while supporting only 5 sunspots. Both are  at the western half of the Sun.  Flare activity is medium with 5 C-class flares in the last two days.

Finally the Sun is out again, but the seeing is still only at 4/10.  Two new regions showing close to the Eastern limb, AR2462 and AR2463.  All Active regions except AR2463 are 10 millionths with AR2463 being only 20 millionths.  AR2456 still shows 4 sunspots with a total for the sun of 7.  Flare activity is low with two C-class flares in the last two days.  Today a full disk image in the three wavelengths as well as a few larger images of the active regions showing also a few small prominences.