The Dutch Observatory

Clear Skies with poor seeing.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  The 2 not named regions are now named and AR2628 is gone.  Total Active Region Area for today is 80 millionths for the three regions and the spot count is 5. Full disk images today with close ups in Ha and CaK.

Clear Skies today and the seeing went from bad 1/5 to poor 2/5.  Solar Activity is still Very Low with no flares in the last two days. We have  two Active Regions,  and two areas with pores have emerged.  The first one yesterday at the Eastern limb, the second today more South of AR2629 and it seems to broaden. Total active region area for today is 230 millionths and the spot count is 4.  Full disk images today as well as close ups (2x barlow) of the mentioned areas.

Clear and transparent skies today, but the seeing was even worse than yesterday because of higher wind shear in the Jetstream.  Solar Activity remains Very Low.  Two regions today with a total Active Region Area of 270 millionths and a total of 13 sunspots.  Today no close up WL images because of the terrible seeing.  I was not able to get any detail before banding appeared even at very light wavelets. To check my camera, I also imaged this using the TIS DMK41, but this was even worse.

Thin  clouds today and the seeing was terrible at 1 out of 5 with 160 mph jet stream winds.  (See charts below)  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  Two regions AR2628 and 29.  Toatal Active Region Area for the hemisphere today is at 270 millionths with 11 sunspots.  Imaging was very bad today, but did process them any way even if I could not get my flats to work for the Ha close ups.  So today they show Newton rings.

Scattered cirrus clouds, 25mph wind gusts and 120 mph winds in the Jetstream right above.  Today’s Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  We have three regions, AR2627, 28 and 29 with a total Active Region Area of 370 millionths and 16 Sunspots. Today full disk images and close ups of the regions in three wavelengths. Seeing conditions did not allow high contrast images, but being able to capture these images is better than none.

A short session with seeing from good at the beginning to bad as I had to stop.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no C-class flares in the last two days.  Four active regions AR2626 through AR2629.  Total Active Region Area has remained the same at 320 millionths despite AR2629 now being a named region.  Total Spot count has drooped by 8 to 15.  Session started good with WL but deteriorated fast when the transparency went bad as I started Ha close ups.  So today no CaK images.

After a week of deadly storms and clouds, clear skies again with great transparency, but the worst seeing in a long time.  Solar Activity still Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  Active Region area a little less than yesterday and is at 320 millionths.  Three Active Regions today and the total spot count has increased and is at 23.  Some activity at the NE limb in CaK and Ha which developed into a B1.9 flare about an hour later followed by a few more B-class flares. Today full disk images and close ups, however the CaK and WL images are very low quality caused by the seeing conditions.

A break in the clouds with below average seeing.  Solar Activity today is very Low with no flares in the last two days.  Both regions AR2625 and 2626 have not changed much, and still going great.  Total Active region area today remains 180 millionths and total spots are 4.  Full disk images today as well as close ups of some regions.

Variable clouds this morning with average seeing.  Solar activity is Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  Two regions, AR2625 a Cso region on the McIntosh scale, and 2526 shows as an Hsx.  AR2626 has grow a bit and is 140 millionths today while total Active Region Area  is 190 millionths.  The pore following AR2625 three days ago is barely visible but a new pore shows nice a few degrees North of AR2626. Today full disk images and close ups of the mentioned regions.

A break in the clouds with average seeing.  Solar Activity is higher today and is Low with two C-class flares in the last two days.  The new spot from yesterday is named today as AR2625 and today it is followed by a larger spot as well as a pore.  We’ll see how this develops.  The prom at the Eastern limb yesterday did lift off about 4 -5 hours after my session. (Too bad).  Active Region Area for today is 30 millionths.  Today full disk images as well as close ups in three wavelengths and the remnants of the proms.