The Dutch Observatory

Clear skies but the seeing was poor because Atlanta’s planes started taking off heading over my observation location.  This morning early, a new active region started developing near the NE limb.  At the time of my observation the area seemed to show already 4 small spots.  This will probably  become AR2704.  In addition, some nice filaments were visible near the northern limb.  Three full disk images today in the three wavelengths as well as close ups of the mentioned areas.

Clear Skies and spotless day 202.  Not much to see with the exception of a small faint filament in Ha.  Three full disk images in the three wavelengths.

Clear skies with good seeing.  Today is the 196th spotless day since solar max.  No great filaments or prominences but a small prom is seen at the SE limb with a faint broad filament near the edge just north of it.  The Ha close up of the center of the solar disk also shows a small dark area.  Today full disk images in all three wavelengths as well as close ups in Ha of the mentioned areas.

Sunny skies with jet condense trails interrupting the session.  I made a mistake today in that I by accident checked the “cut” function in Firecapture which only captures a 300×300 pixel image instead of the entire solar disk. The result is that I did not get a full disk image in 540nm.  4 Hours before my images AR2703 produced a B9.0 flare but so far not a C-class flare.  Total Active Region area for today is 10 millionths with two sunspots, although it was very hard to make out the Active Region in 540nm.