The Dutch Observatory

Today another very active sun with some very nice prominences all around.  I made two closeups of the large Proms in the SE and NE quadrant of the sun together with a closeup of Ar1429.  We saw a few C-flares today in AR1428, 29,and 30 but not like the last few days when the X-flares asked for attention.

A very active Sun today.  AR1429 already produced this morning 4-M class flares and many C-class flares.  And 1430 had one C-class flare.  You can see that both regions are sparkling with activity.  Today also a closeup of 1429 and 30.  The weather was very windy and the seeing was terrible.  Only one decent closeup out of 7 runs.  however, nice prominences al around the sun.

Well, the the sun has been very busy since the clouds disappeared.  In addition to the many C-class flares we have seen in the last few days several M-class flares and even two X-flares.  The resulting CME will reach earth on late Tuesday/early Wednesday. All these flares resulted from the very active AR1429 which came around the eastern limb a few days ago.  A few smaller prominences were also visible but nothing like we saw over a week ago.  Could become an interesting week

Today the sun showed its face again.  At the last hours of CR2120 I captured my images of today.  We missed several Active Regions and today AR1423, 27, 28 and 29 were very active.  The Sun did produce two M class flares in the last two days with the last one being an M-2 this morning in AR1429.  However, this was way before I started my imaging session.

After the clouds cleared up this morning, we had a beautiful day.  I made two closeups and I am showing the inverted versions of them.
I also decided to give the Ca-K PST another run, so Stephen will be happy.  The large filament seems to have  degraded a lot and proms are not very big either.  However, the active regions look terrific.

Today’s Sun was real nice, but the large prominence from the 23rd was gone.  However there still were some very nice prominences around the Sun, especially on the SE and Southern limb, as well as a very large filament in the shape of a V in the southern half.  The new regions still keep producing B class flares so no major outbreak has happened so far, but what not is, still can come….

Did not get the Ha Filter tuned right.  I had too much distraction and not much time because of the outreach event at Providence Elementary School.  However, I could not overlook the beautiful prominences at the SE as well as the NE limb.  Moving clouds made this prom capture a real challenge.

It has been since the 12th that we have seen C-class flares on the sun until yesterday when a C flare was detected again.  Since then, we have seen 3 more C-class flares, two C2 and one C4 class.  Maybe the sun is waking up again?   Two very nice prominences in the east as well as western limb.  A nice dark filament is stretching in the SE quadrant.  Today a full disk image and two closeups.

Cloudy forecast, but a small break in the clouds allowed me to image the sun.  The prominence image was taken through a thin band of clouds before everything disappeared, not much flare activity today, but as very nice prominence at the SE limb.

A crisp morning to image with wide con-trails everywhere.  Today very nice display of several prominences.  B type flares keep crackling in 1416 and a new region at the eastern limb.  A very nice double looping prominence at the western limb and some others at the eastern side.  Also the filamens are showing nice today especially puffy filament in the inverted version of the closeup of AR1420 and the prom at the western limb.