Tuesday, February 23, 2016

I finally managed a couple of images today.  The sky was a bit hazy, but I expected better images then the ones I got today.  I am posting them even though they don't compare to Mike's great full disk image.  :-)

Lower west limb. 


West limb middle area - AR2501.


East limb, middle area.  The feature in the center wasn't labeled.


Mike and I will be trying to get good image every clear day.  it is very obvious that we are into the next solar minimum.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

A return of the Sun

 So I guess this will kick off the 2016 image season for Bill and I . The temperature was -5c so just a quick disk to start 2016 .



Monday, January 11, 2016

Winter -
    Mike and I have been weathered out for our solar imaging for quite a while now.  There is a little more solar activity now so I hope that one or both of us will be able to do some imaging soon.  Obviously not real energetic though. The sunspots, not us.  :-)
  

Space Weather.Com -
QUIET SUNSPOTS: Solar activity is very low. The reason is, these two sunspots are so quiet:

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Yesterdays Quiet Sun

Monday Nov 16th was another sunny day in southern Ontario . My temperatures have been un seasonably warm up here for this time of year . Unfortunately it has also been cloudy but Monday was an exception . As Bill stated in his last post the sun is quiet right now with no visible sun spots but there were a few filaments and some small proms .    Mike










Saturday, November 14, 2015

To my surprise today turned into an imaging day.  I wasn't about to let it go by.  Mike has done an excellent job of keeping the blog supplied with great images.
Bill

Large U shaped filament at AR2452 -



Lower Eastern limb -



The biggest prom that I saw today -



Closer in on the  U shaped filament at AR2452  using the DMK-41 and 2.5 Powermate-



Closer in on the big prom unfortunately the seeing didn't really support this higher magnification -
(I replaced the first image in this size.  I had one more video and it was a bit better.)



Not a lot of features to image this time.  The sunspot AR2449 has dissipated a considerable amount.

Monday, November 9, 2015

November 9 Sun

My conditions were better than average today and it was a nice day to be outside .  The sky was nice and steady when I started but the distortion was starting by the time I was finished . Fairly quiet sun compared to what we have had , a couple of small AR's and some filament activity .












Tuesday, November 3, 2015

First November Sun

Last week was mostly cloudy up here in Ontario ,I did have one sunny day but had to skip it due to a pulled muscle in my back . Yesterday was brilliant sunshine and my back was feeling better so I set up and managed to grab these captures .    Mike

                                                            November 2 Solar




                                                                          AR 2443





                                                             A couple of W/L shots