The Dutch Observatory

July 7, 2019 on 10:59 am | In Sun | Comments Off

Clear skies with the exception of a thin cloud band that covered the Sun and did not want to move away.  However I was able to capture these images with bad seeing.  We do have a spot and the current spotless streak comes to an end.  It was named this morning as AR2744.  The exciting part of this is that its polarization is reversed from the C-24 areas.  In addition, its latitude is at 27.66 degrees South and a longitude of 209.5 degrees, so it probably will qualify as a C-25 spot.  Following AR2620 in December 2016, this would be the 2nd reversed polarized region that was named.  Full disk images today with close ups of the area as well as the Western Filaments.