The Dutch Observatory

Clear Skies with seeing at 7/10.  Solar activity is Medium with 1 M-Class and 6 C-Class flares in the last two days.  Today 4 Active Regions with a total region area of 250 millionth and the decaying region AR2497 still at 180 millionth, and a Eac on the McIntosh scale.  Total spot count today is 28.  It is interesting to note that we are back in M-Class territory even if it is low.   When I started imaging in CaK I noticed a flare in AR2497 which turned out to be a C 6.8 at its peak.  When I got to the Ha images the flare was still there but not as intense as it was a few minutes before.

Clear stable skies this morning.  Seeing at 8/10. Solar activity is Medium today with 4 C-Class flares in the last two days.  AR2497 continues to be the dominant region and has grown to 240 millionths, and now is an Eac on the McIntosh scale.  Total Active Regions Area today is at 350 millionths with  5 regions and a spot count of 34.

Broken skies when I started imaging with the windshield temp at 18F.  Seeing 7/10.  Solar activity is low with 4 C-Class flares in the last two days.  5 Active Regions with a total Active Region area of  350 millionths of which AR2497 covered 180 millionths.  Total Sunspot count for today is 19.  Today three full disk images in Ha, CaK, and WL 540nm,  as well as a close up of AR2497 in Ha and CaK, where the CaK image was impacted by a streak of clouds.

The skies cleared up during the night.  Seeing was pretty good at 8/10.  Four Active Regions today with a total spot area of 390 millionths and a spot count of 31.  AR2494 stays the dominant area with 270 millionths. Flare activity Medium with 8 C-class flares in the last two days, four of which occurred in AR2494.  Three full disk images today and close ups of some regions as identified on the images, as well as a prominence at the Western limb.

A break in between cloudy skies, long enough for a complete set of images.  Seeing was 7/10.   The Sun’s activity is Medium today with 20 C-class flares in the last two days.  AR2494 is now the dominant region being a Dai on the McIntosh scale. Its size measures 230 millionths of the total sunspot regions at 400 millionths.  Total sunspot count today for the 6 regions today is 40.  Images today include full disk in all 3 wavelength as well as close ups of AR2494 and other spots/regions.