The Dutch Observatory

March 3, 2016 on 4:45 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Some clear skies, with mediocre seeing at 5/10.  The Sun’s activity today is Very Low with no flares in the last five days.  5 Regions are visible on our hemisphere with the total region area doubling since yesterday to 220.  The largest area is still AR2506 at 110 millionths, while scaling back on the McIntosh scale to a Cso from a Dso yesterday.  The total sunspot count is up from 6 to 15.  Because of the conditions during the observing session, today only a full disk image in the three wavelength as well as an Ha close up of  AR2506 and AR2510, and 13.