Sun - Tuesday 22nd April

[Byz1453]

Clouded out all day yesterday but I jealously followed the reports on here. You guys seemed to have a great day.

Lovely morning here in Amsterdam, Sun came over the neighbours about 8.45 CET.

Lovely disk, lots of active regions and filaments, twin prom in the south east around 4 o'clock. With a lovely active region bubbling away on the eastern limb. A whole host of smaller proms from southwest through to the northwest, I count around five but I am not sure if two of them are the remnants of an arch.

Enjoy, those who can, back to work for me....

K

[Umbraldot]

Totally clouded here this morning and the forecast is poor. Keep the reports coming!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Thanks for the update. Might have a look here in Groningen shortly

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just had a quick look, and there are lots of filaments about. On the western limb there is a very bright spot and short prom fairly northwards, and a nice double prom southwards. Just above this double prom, there is a complex, ghostly structure only visible in my 24 and 20mm EPs (16.7x and 20x). It consists of faint strands of plasma, one of which seems to be detached. Eastwards several smaller proms are visible. There might well be some interesting developments later.

[Pig]

Nice report Michael, I have just managed to have a quick view after a 15 minute cloud break

10:02am -

Prominences - Ha - Lunt 60mm

The prom in the 8 O'clock position is still going strong with a pretty decent body, there are some nice little proms in the 4 & 5 O'clock positions and a few others dotted around the disc.

Granulation is looking very good with lots of swirls apparent there is also one extra bright area just left of centre

Sunspots- White Light - Pronto - Herschel Wedge

there is a nice group of spots around the 9 O'clock position, a very large spot just North of the centre, and 2 a little clumps just left of centre and around the 4 O'clock position.

The most interesting is the little clump of spots just left of centre, in Ha light this shows as a very bright area of activity, but when zoomed in using the Nagler,  it is broken down into a further 4 groups that are made up of many spots, it looks fantastic at this range of magnification (approx 106 x Mag).

[pragmatist]

Great report whetting the appetite but no breaks in cloud till later today here.

[Pig]

Ooops sorry Byz,  I thought the thread was started by Michael

[Byz1453]

Not a problem Shaun.

I'm sat here at my desk, glad that someone else is getting a bit of proper Sun worship in...

Kieran

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just had a look during lunch and the prom in the south-west had developed into a very intricate tree-like structure. Just to its north-west a triangular prom (almost shaped like a volcano) seemed to be spewing out matter to its south. North west the bright spot on the boundary looked very lively too, with little proms rearing their heads to disappear after a few minutes, only to bubble up a little while later. Lots of filaments visible across the disk and a large sunspot north of centre visible even in H-alpha

[pragmatist]

Just out of curiosity Michael do you report the regions as true nth/sth or how you see it with a diagonal in place which inverts the image? I imagine most of us view with a diagonal and I tend to report as I view it.

Thanks,

Matt