The Dutch Observatory

Had to image earlier today with the Sun only 18 degrees high.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  AR2650 is the only active region today with a size of 40 millionths and three Sun spots.  Two small filaments are visible and some nice proms, which did not image good because of the low altitude.  Close ups of the mentioned features and full disk images in the customary wavelengths.

Clear Skies with good seeing this morning.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  The one region coming around the limb yesterday has been named as AR2650.  Total Active Region Area for the Sun today is at 20 millionths and the spot count is 3.  The old AR2648 still can be seen in Ha and CaK and a small filament is visible in the Southern hemisphere while a few faint prominences are visible at the sides. Today full disk images as well as close ups of the mentioned regions.

Clear Skies with good seeing this morning.  Had to wait 1/2 hour for good transparency.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  Today is spotless day 63 since Solar Max.  Total Active Region Area for today is zero as well as the spot count.  However, a new active region is turning in view at the Eastern limb, so the spotless days will not last long.

Clear Skies with average seeing.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  AR2645 has turned to the far side of the Sun and AR2648 is only visible in Ha with no signs of a spot.  At 0030 UT AR2645 was still visible with 5 spots, so today’s statistics are Total Active Region Area at 70 millionths and a spot count of 7 and I believe we are getting ready for another spotless day.

Clear Skies with good transparency and seeing before the Jetstream moved overhead again. Solar Activity has returned to Very Low with no flares in the last two days. We have two active regions of which AR2645 is turning to the far side of the Sun and AR2648 just passed the central meridian. Total Active Region Area for today is at 400 millionths and the spot count is at 18. Some nice features to image, including the active regions as well as some nice prominences and filaments, which are included in today’s images.

Clear Skies this morning with great transparency and seeing.  Solar Activity is High with one M-class flare and 18 C-class flares in the last two days. Total Active Region Area for today is 1270 millionths and the spot count for today is 57.  AR2644 is turning to the far side and is giving a nice display of fireworks at the Western limb, and AR2645 has increased to 700 millionths.  In addition, a few small prominences are visible. Full disk images today as well as the close ups of the mentioned regions.

Clear Skies this morning and seeing conditions went from poor to average over a period of several hours.  Wow!  The Solar Activity has gotten a very large boost over the last 24 hours.  So far AR2644, while being close to the Western limb, has produced three M-class flares of which one caused an R2 alert to be posted.  I was able to capture some of the activity in my images.  We also have 4 Active Regions now, AR2644, 45, 47, and 48.  The latter one just coming around the Eastern limb.  So today full disk images and close ups of the regions with some nice flaring.

Late this morning the clouds cleared up a little with average seeing conditions.  Solar Activity is Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  We still have two Active Regions.  AR2644 is an Eso on the McIntosh scale, and 45 is an Dki.  The active region areas are 190 and 260 millionths respectively, and the total spot count is at 13.  Full disk images today as well as close ups of the regions.

Cirrus clouds this morning with a number of contrails.  However seeing was not too bad, but interrupted my session a few times.  Solar Activity went from Very Low to Low, with three C-class flares in the last two days.  We have three Active Regions, AR2644, 45 and 46, with a total region area of 320 millionths and a total of 21 Spots. Full disk images today as well as close ups of the regions and a few filaments at the Western half of the Sun.

30% Clouds with average seeing.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no C-class flares in the last two days, however, some B-class flares are visible.  A new region has popped up which supports a few spots and probably will be named today.  Full disk images today and 3x close ups of various regions on the Sun.