Nov. 21, 2014: Sunspots and proms during lunchtime

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

The weather is actually glorious here, for a change. I spent 15 minutes over lunch staring at the sun through my little LS35. The "bear-paw" sunspot is still there, with some nice plage and filaments surrounding it, and stretching to the smaler sunspot to its west. The newer spot near the eastern limb shows a lot of activity all round it, and some very large filaments grace the northern hemisphere. On the western limb several filaproms are visible, mostly to the north (along with the ghostly flame high up in the north). Southwards a very pale but broad sheet of plasma is visible mainly as a filament, but the top edge is now just beyond the limb, so it is more properly a filaprom. On the eastern limb, north of the solar equator there is a series of nice proms that seem to be the bases of larger arcs (the fainter top halves might not be visible in my little scope).

All in all an enjoyable time spent watching our nearest star

[Floater]

Glad it's good for you, Michael (still good!!).

My reply to an earlier report from you stands - grey blanket ...

[Davey-T]

Glad you've got Sun Michael, have to make do with Helioviewer here.

Dave

[Peter Drew]

Rain and clouds for lunch here!,    thanks for the descriptive report. 

[Pig]

Great report Michael, I do like the term "filaprom"