Sunday 11th July

Poor weather and other commitments have meant getting any solar in has been pretty much nigh impossible this last week, so I was pleased this morning when the weather had better offerings for me. Whislt not comletely clear skies, rather bands of fast moving cloud - it was a case of patiently waiting till the sun appeared in the gaps between the cloud trains, Consulting the visible satellite image I knew I had to be quick as there was a band of high cirrus rapidly moving in that I knew would play havoc with levels when imaging.

First off was the full disk. There were numerous low contrast quiescent filaments on view, however the main feature of note is AR11087. This is a very large active region that has a large 'S' shaped sinuos filament at its core. The whole area is very bright and likely correlates with some low level flaring. In addition there is also a new active region on the same longitude as 11087, but in the soouthern hemisphere, this could well prove to be interesting in the days ahead...

Next up colourised with todays proms - none of which were huge, but there were quite a few and they were quite interesting at higher magnification.

Both taken with DS40 f16 PL130M

Next up close ups of AR11087, and beneath it the new currently undesignated active region...

DS40 f20 DMK31

There was some nice prom activity today on the north eastern limb, which I think frames nicely with ar11087, so I thought i'd go for a 'one shot' of the region...

And one of the north western limb...

I could already see the haze of arriving cirrus on the horizon so moved quick to get in a few prom shots. This one is of the south western limb...

Same prom, plus one just north of the solar equator, rotated to fit...

Prom shots were taken with SM40 f20 DMK31.I couldn't resist a CaK shot just to see the expanse of 11087, and just managed this before the clouds finally rolled in bringing the days proceedings to a halt...

CaK PST f16 PL130M

Hope you like them!

Thanks for looking, Mark