The Dutch Observatory

For most of the last dayAR2818, AR2820 and AR2821 have been stable.  No big events have happened during this time.  The facula and Plage of AR2819 can still be seen in the NE.  Today full disk images and close ups of the mentioned regions.

Two more Areas have been named since my last session:  AR2819 (NW quadrant) and AR2820 (close to AR2818).  However, I was unable to spot AR2819 in 540nm, but their plages could be seen in Ha and CaK.  AR2816 is barely visible in WL images, but the plages shows in Ha and Cak.  Today full disk images and close ups of the regions.

Clear skies and much better seeing than yesterday.  Just in time to say goodbye to AR2817, which is practically half on the Western limb.  It is still visible in the images and a spot can be seen in the WL image, but not visually.  It is interesting that all three regions were pretty busy.  Full disk images and close ups of the regions today.

Clear skies with terrible seeing conditions and strong winds.  In fact I could not use 2 of my WL close ups and the third one is of very low quality.  We now have three Active Regions, AR2816, AR2817 and AR2818.  AR2817 will be soon at the Western limb and disappear, but AR2818 is close to the Eastern limb and we’ll see if it persists.  Today some low quality full disk images, and close ups.

Good seeing today.  We have a new Active Region. AR2817 in the NW quadrant was named this morning.  AR2814 and AR2815 are still visible as plages. I was so excited about the new region, that I forgot to image AR2816 in 540nm, but instead imaged the faculae of AR2814 and 15.  Full disk images today with close ups of the mentioned regions.

Clear skies, but I had some real imaging problems.  I believe I did accidentally delete Firecapture v.2,4 and 2.6 does not work well on my PC.  However I got some 540nm and Ha images.  AR2814 did decay today to a plage and AR2815 had decayed yesterday to a plage.  So the only strong hold today is AR2816.  Full disk images today as well as close ups of the mentioned regions but today only in 540nm and Ha.

Clear skies this morning and the beginning of a new Carrington Rotation CR2243.  The leading spot of AR2814 has decayed somewhat, but the following spots have increased in size and numbers.  An interesting Region.  Full disk images and close ups of AR2814.

Clear skies again this morning!  AR2814 has increased a little and showed some B-Class flares yesterday and is a Cao/beta spot.  We have an interesting Sun again! Full disk images and close ups of AR2814.

Clear skies this morning with good seeing and we have some new spots, even if they are small!  This morning the new region in the SE quadrant has been named AR2814 according to the midday forecast discussion of SWPC.  I did not see the naming until after I had processed the images from my morning session.  So my images still refer to a new region as did yesterday’s.  The region is classified as an Bxo, but is  inactive.  The large prom from yesterday is gone.  So today full disk images and closeups of the mentioned region.

Scattered clouds with poor seeing this morning.  NOAA’s SWPC did report another spotless day in their GEOAlert last night, which counted in my database as the 902nd spotless day since Solar Max.  According to SWPC, the region in the SE quadrant has shown over the last few days a number of pores, which decayed very fast.  Today I could make out two of them in my 540nm close up.  In addition there are numerous prominences all around the Sun.  Today full disk images and close ups of the mentioned areas.