The Dutch Observatory

Clear skies with a few clouds and average seeing.  After AR2670 has turned to the far side of the Sun, AR2671 has now emerged at the Eastern limb as an Eai Active Region on the McIntosh scale, containing 11 Sunspots, and covering an area of 170 millionths. A few small filaments remain visible of which I imaged the NE filament.  Did not see any prominences. Full disk images today as well as close ups of AR2671.

Conditions went from intermittent clouds to light cloud cover with poor seeing.  AR2670 is arriving at the Western limb and is barely visible in Ha and CaK (probably because of the deteriorating sky conditions).  Total Active Region Area for today is 100 millionths and the spot in AR2670 is still a Hsx on the McIntosh scale. We still can see the filament near the S limb, and a few nice prominences are also visible.  Solar Activity remains Very Low.

Variable clouds today with below average seeing.  After two weeks of no solar observations, the Solar Activity is Very Low.  AR2670 is moving towards the Western limb and is currently 110 millionths and contains one Hsx spot.  A few small filaments can be seen as well as a few very small prominences. Solar Activity is Very Low.

Variable clouds and below average seeing.  After 2 spotless days AR2669 emerged.  A little larger than a pore and measured 5 millionths and consisted of two little spots.  In addition we could see some plages and some filaments.  Other than that activity stayed Very Low today.

Another day with variable clouds.  Seeing is above average today.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  The filaments are fizzling out but we still have some nice proms to look at.

Clear Skies with average seeing.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  Not much to see on the Sun except three filaments and some plages in CaK.  The solar rim looks more interesting with a number of prominences.  Today is Spotless day 82.

Had to wait until the very slow moving clouds cleared.  Seeing was average. Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  The two areas in the center look very distinct in CaK and in Ha.  In Ha we also can see the filaments as well as a nice number of prominences, especially on the Western limb.

Clear Skies with average seeing.  Solar Activity is Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  AR2665 has rotated out of view and the Sun is calm with no active regions.  This is the 80th spotless day so far.  Some small filaments and plasma activity can be seen in the Ha images.

Intermittent clouds at the time of observation, however the seeing was average. Solar Activity is Low with 6 C-class flares in the previous two days.  AR2665 is barely visible at S7W87 degrees and still covers an area of 450 millionths with three spots just before it disappears.  However, the close up in Ha still shows the “walls” and plasma stream above it very nicely. It is great that we could observe some nice Solar features in Ha, especially some nice filaments and prominences.  A very nice sun today!!

Intermittent clouds this morning with wait times between images and below average seeing.  AR2665 has made its way across the disk of the Sun.  It has put on a very nice show.  Today’s Solar Activity is Medium with 6 C-class flares in the last two days.  Total Active Region area for today is 350 millionths of which AR2665 claims 340.  Total Sunspot count is 6.  AR2666 shows as a very tiny spot today.  Today’s images include one filament and 4 prominence images in addition to the normal full disk images.