The Dutch Observatory

October 21, 2017 on 8:48 pm | In Sun | Comments Off

Thin Cirrus clouds and wide spread contrails today.  However managed to get a relative clear area to image. Solar Activity is Medium with two M-class flares in the last two days.   Following twelve spotless days which were interrupted briefly for one day by a tiny spot, we see a relative nice sized area coming around the Eastern limb. The huge prom from yesterday has now turned partly earth side so we can nicely see how a prominence transforms into a filament when it levitates over the earth facing surface. We also see a nice prom following the new area.  To round it off for today, the three areas with filaments are still nicely visible and have not seen much deterioration.