The Dutch Observatory

February 16, 2016 on 7:44 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

This morning clear skies with improved seeing 8/10.  The Solar activity is still Medium although AR2497 has been extremely busy producing 18 C-class flares in the last two days.  AR2501 has formed with a nice Hsx spot.  AR2497 is still the dominant area but is getting ready to turn to the far side of the Sun and shows some nice spots with the Wilson effect.  Total active region area today is 310 millionths of which AR2497 covers 240.  Total spot count today is down to 18.  In addition to the three active regions, the solar limbs show some nice prominences.  A nice hedgerow and pillar prom at the Western limb and an unconnected loop at the Eastern.  Today 8 images of which 3 are full disk.