AR12135 has a pair of spots both bigger than Earth, but has to be said at the moment is very quiet as far as active regions go, with very little plage surrounding it. Hopefully as it rotates across the face of the sun in the next 10 days activity will pick up a little and will produce a few fireworks. Taken with the DS40 at 925mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
A closeup of the active regions as they get closer to the limb, activity seems to be dying off a bit here now. Taken at 925mm focal length with the DMK31 and DS40.
A very quick rough and ready full disk from very first thing this morning. I must have still been a little bleary eyed as both the focus and tuning is not as sharp as I like, but presented at this scale it works and gives an overview of what was going on. Taken with the DS40 at 700mm fl with the DMK31 camera.
When I observed the sun early on thursday morning, I could see it was crackling away in CaK wavelengths, so I decided to use the Hutech Solar Guider and autorun function in firecapture and go for an animation. I only managed 10 minutes worth before as usual in rolled the clouds, but when I looked back at the data was pleasantly surprised to the big sunspot associated with AR12132 showing a plasma eruption coming from the edge of a circular zone that surrounds the umbra of the spot. The event was very transient and only lasted a couple of minutes and looking on the GOES Xray flux it barely registered as a C1 flare event, still was fun to see none the less. Taken with the 40mm scope at 925mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
New active region AR12135 emerged only some 14 hours before this picture was taken, but already has sunspots that are considerably larger than Earth. There is not a huge amount of plage associated with this active region at the moment but this could well change in the days ahead. This image was taken with the 40mm scope at 925mm focal length using the DMK31 camera.
Thursday mornings sun was looking nice in CaK light, with several quite large sunspots now visible on the disk. Image taken with the 40mm scope at 700mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
This double stacked view of a family of active regions slowly approaching the suns western limb has a real sense of 3D to it with the large filaments seemingly arching above the suns disk. It was taken with the DS40 at 925mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
