More March Sunshine

A chilly but sunny day up here in Ontario today . Conditions were about average for this time of year

Sun Appears Again

This has been a welcome return to some sunshine for me . A nice day to be outside but a layer of high thin cloud added to the challenge . All in all it was good to be back at imaging again .

Looking pretty quiet up there .

Mike

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.

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 .

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:

 

More  From Space Weather . Com

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

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.