The Dutch Observatory

Today the sun showed some very bright prominances, not very high but bright.  Did not have to do any or much on the gamma to get these.  AR1176 seems to be the source of the one at the western limb.  AR1183 and 84 more in the center.

Clear skies again today.  Today AR1184 has popped up.  Images of the whole sun and a closeup of AR 1180,  83 and 84.

Today, clear skies all day!  The Sun in H-alpha and CaK including inverted images.  AR1176 is approaching the western limb of the sun and more activity has shown up around and east of AR1183. 

Clear Skies this morning until about noon when the clouds started to roll in again.  An H-alpha image processed normally and inverted, as well as a CaK image made with the Jon Wood Award PST-CaK and the DMK41AU02.AS.

It was cloudy this morning, but I managed to get a few images through the holes between the clouds.  Three active regions today:  1176, 1180 and 1183. 

Today I imaged the most active sun this cycle.  A total of 6 active regions were visible.  It looked like someone roughed up the sun.  I wonder what we will be seeing in the next few days.

Today we have 4 active regions: 1176, 77, 78 and 79 with 76 and 78 making a nice rift.  I imaged 75/78 for an hour but nothing noteworthy happend in that time period, so we’ll have to keep looking for something interesting in the next days.  I used one of the images of the hour’s imaging session to show the nice close up of these active regions.

Today AR1176 started to turn further into view, while 1175 approached the western limb and will disappear very soon.

The nice weather continued.  Today I made images in both H-alpha and Calcium-K and made an hour animation of AR1168.  However, I had a terrible time with the alignment of the animation,  so I used one of the images to show a closeup or the nice prominance.

The cloudy skies gave way and provided the opportunity to image the ISS again.  We chose a location off RT11 a few miles south of Charlie Elliott at the intersection with Henderson Mills Rd.  This time we used the SolarMax40 and mounted the camera perpendicular to the vertical axis to get an image that would let us beter understand the information provided in Clasky’s forecasts. Here the image made again by the Frank and Theo Team.