The Dutch Observatory

Today I was able to capture the “Strawberry Moon”. A Strawberry Moon according to the Farmer’s Almanac is the June Full Moon.  However, this year this Full Moon falls on one of the Solstices, which makes it a very rare event. It has been almost 70 years since this happened and I read it was in 1946. Since the horizon at the house is relative high, I went two miles down the street where I captured the Ingress of the Mercury transit and waited for the Moon to come up. And it was beautiful, deep orange, but ut changed very rapidly as the moon rose. So here two images with the tree line in the background.

Reasonable temps and clear skies with seeing at 7/10.  Today we have four Active regions, AR2553, 56 , 57 and 58.  Solar activity is still Low.  Although we have four regions, the total Active Region Area for the Sun is only 330 millionths.  Total Spot count is 8 with 5 spots in AR2558. Today full disk images in the three wavelengths as well as close ups of the regions.