The Dutch Observatory

Clear skies with poor transparency and seeing today.  Solar Activity remains Very Low.  We only have one Active Region with a total region area of 90 millionths and 8 sunspots.  Images today include full disk images as well as close ups of the one region and a filament.

I have to correct my post from yesterday.  It was not AR2634 that was regaining energy, but a new region AR2635.  My bad, sorry.  Today transparency, as well as seeing were good.  It has been a very long time since the seeing was at this level.  I even got the granulation again in my WL images.  Solar Activity is Very Low.  Total Active Region Area is 70 millionth and total sunspot count is 5.  Today full disk images and close ups, including a 3x close up of AR2635 in WL.

Seeing is very bad today with 30 mph wind gusts and over 100 mph Jetstream above. Solar Activity remains Very Low and Space Weather Prediction Center closed the yesterday with no reported active regions.  Today AR2634 is regaining energy and has been very busy generating a number of B class flares and even one C-class flare.  Full disk images and low quality close ups of the mentioned region and some small filaments.

Transparency was bad this morning with many broad contrails.  Solar Activity is Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  Three regions for today, of which one disappeared so far.  Total Active Region Area for today is 80 millionths with a spot count of 9.  Full disk images today with a close up of the Western limb with AR2632 and what’s left of AR2633.

Seeing remains poor and transparency went down to average.  Solar Activity is Very Low.  We have two Active Regions AR2629 and AR2632 with a size of resp. 40 and 50 millionths.  Total spot count for today is 8.  Full disk images and close ups of the mentioned regions with the WL close ups stacked in Registax5.

Clear Skies with poor but improving seeing.  Solar Activity remains Very Low.  We are seeing three Active Regions, AR2629, 31 and 32.  AR2629 is an Hax region and the two others Bxo.  The total Active Region Area for today is 60 millionths and the spot count is 12.  Today full disk images as well as close ups of the mentioned regions.  I did revert back to Registax5 for the stacking of the white light close ups since AS2 did not produce any detail.

Clear Skies with poor seeing.  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  The 2 not named regions are now named and AR2628 is gone.  Total Active Region Area for today is 80 millionths for the three regions and the spot count is 5. Full disk images today with close ups in Ha and CaK.

Clear Skies today and the seeing went from bad 1/5 to poor 2/5.  Solar Activity is still Very Low with no flares in the last two days. We have  two Active Regions,  and two areas with pores have emerged.  The first one yesterday at the Eastern limb, the second today more South of AR2629 and it seems to broaden. Total active region area for today is 230 millionths and the spot count is 4.  Full disk images today as well as close ups (2x barlow) of the mentioned areas.

Clear and transparent skies today, but the seeing was even worse than yesterday because of higher wind shear in the Jetstream.  Solar Activity remains Very Low.  Two regions today with a total Active Region Area of 270 millionths and a total of 13 sunspots.  Today no close up WL images because of the terrible seeing.  I was not able to get any detail before banding appeared even at very light wavelets. To check my camera, I also imaged this using the TIS DMK41, but this was even worse.

Thin  clouds today and the seeing was terrible at 1 out of 5 with 160 mph jet stream winds.  (See charts below)  Solar Activity remains Very Low with no flares in the last two days.  Two regions AR2628 and 29.  Toatal Active Region Area for the hemisphere today is at 270 millionths with 11 sunspots.  Imaging was very bad today, but did process them any way even if I could not get my flats to work for the Ha close ups.  So today they show Newton rings.