A mid scale view of the north eastern quadrant of the sun where all of a sudden we have a whole host of activity. Taken with the ED80, Quark, baader solar telecompressor and the DMK31.
Our sun is looking great at the moment with all this activity that has come round the eastern limb, by the weekend it will be more mid disk and in great position for imaging. This shot was taken with the DS40 at 560mm focal length with the DMK31 camera. These etalons definitely produce better images when the temperature is warmer and the pressure is higher - oh the physics of etalons!
Been a while since I took a CaK image, been far too distracted with the Quark, but, here is a quick full disk taken with the 40mm at 560mm focal length with the Imaging Source DMK31 camera.
Conditions were far from good on Sunday morning, with a high and gusty wind buffeting the scope about, but also a layer of fairly persistent high cloud and fast moving thicker clouds scudding by. I could see that a solar flare was under way so decided to try for a capture anyway; this is about 20 minutes of animation captured with the ED80, Quark and DMK31 camera. While not perfect it was nice to be able to get some view of the flare from this new set of active regions.
The sun has got to be the most dynamic object you can observe, with every day offering different features, however in this instance this mega filament has got to be one of the most long lived features that I have seen on the face of our star. I first recorded this in mid January and so far it has survived 3 rotations. Held aloft above the suns surface by magnetic field lines this cool plasma hovers like a solar cloud, although it is significantly reduced in density compared to a few months ago it remains to be seen whether this long term solar feature will remain for a fourth rotation. Guess we will have to wait a couple of weeks and see. This image was taken with the 100mm Tal100R refractor, Daystar Quark, Baader Solar Telecompressor and the Imaging source DMK31 camera.
AR12320 has been relatively quiet in terms of flare activity over the past week or so, but despite its quiet disposition still looks a very angry active region with many turbulent swirls of dark filamentary plasma. Taken with the 100mm Tal100R refractor, Daystar Quark, Baader Solar Telecompressor and Imaging Source DMK31 camera.
The north east quadrant of the sun was looking very busy on Saturday, with an emerging flux region and a trio of new sunspots passing over the limb. Throw in a filaprom, filaments and prominences and there was a lot to see. Taken with the 100mm Tal refractor, Daystar Quark, Baader Solar Telecompressor and the Imaging Source DMK31 camera.
