The Dutch Observatory

May 14, 2016 on 1:56 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Caught in the act!!  Clear skies this morning and started my session as usual with WL.  When I switched to Ha, nothing indicated what would follow.  The full disk image was uneventful but after I changed to close ups and finished AR2544, I saw an outburst in AR2543.  This was a very fast C5.6 flare which lasted only 7 minutes total.  However, I got the peak and several images following it of which I am showing 2.  The Sun has becoming much more active over night and has only today already produced 4 C-class flares so the activity is official Medium.  Also a new Region has shown up at the Eastern limb which is very sizable  (AR2546?).  So maybe we are in for some nice activity in the days to come.