After thursdays weather finally did clear the sky remained very hazy, with high cloud floating around ,making the normally blue sky very milky; however despite the view I was getting through the camera on the laptop screen looking a little lacking in contrast and washed out, the final image was not too bad, with a decent amount of fine detail. This shot was taken with the DS40 at 700mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
I like the delicate prominences in this image on the limb, and how angry the active regions look, inparticular ar12141 with it arching plasma erupting from its core. Hopefully in the days ahead they will produce plenty of solar fireworks for us all to look at. Taken with the DS40 at 700mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
The sun is incredibly quiet on it's western limb as a number of active regions slip slowly towards it before rotating out of view, still all these filaments should turn into nice prominences as they rotate over the edge. This image was taken with the DS40 at 700mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
New active region AR12141 (closest to the limb) and it's counterpart AR12139 (mid image) were both very bright in CaK wavelengths with lots of bright plage. A peppering of small spots in both active regions suggests they may well be a bit more active than AR12135 currently departing on the western limb. The image was taken with the 40mm scope at 925mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
AR12135 has been a bit of a damp squib for the time of its whole transit across the face of the sun, never doing very much at all, infact it has struck me over the last 2 weeks how little plage has been associated with this active region, which is something quite unusual to me. The image was taken with the 40mm scope at 925mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
Conditions were a little hazy on thursday afternoon which always softens the image up a bit at CaK wavelengths, but still got a nice view of our star even if the proms are a little subdued. Taken with the 40mm scope at 700mm focal length with the DMK31.
When it formed a week or so ago, AR12135 did so with seemingly such ferocity that it looked like it would put on a good performance as it transited the surface of the sun. However it was always a decaying active region with only one large spot and very little plage activity, nothing much has changed now it is near the suns eastern limb. Hopefully it will reveal a little more depth and structure to it as we view from a much more oblique angle in the days ahead. This image was taken with the DS40 at 800mm focal length with the DMK31 camera.
