Forecast was for sunny and clear skies yesterday evening and this morning, well they were almost right - the clouds didn't really clear last night but this morning there were just a few fluffy clouds about. I took the opportunity to have a quick look at the sun through my Lunt LS60.

What an interesting sun today, there seemed to be filaments and prominences galore. One very large filament in the lower left quadrant seemed to be coming out at me, like something from a 3D film. There was a solar flare yesterday or the day before, I think I could just see the remnants of that. Also there were several pairs of sun spots scattered across the entire disc of the sun.

This is possibly the most activity I have observed so far, perhaps not the most impressive prominences but certainly the most interesting in a single view. Hoping to see more of this kind of activity during the solar maximum this year and next.

Once again, the CG-4 performed brilliantly, very easy to set up and align (I don't think I had to adjust DEC at all once I had located the sun), finding the sun in the Sol Finder was quick too. I am getting used to assembling the Vixen Synta dovetail bar to the clamshell using the three bolts, it only takes me five minutes to put it all together (along with the Sol Finder) and have it balanced on the CG-4 mount. It is all part of the fun really, there is certainly something satisfying about assembling things while sitting outdoors on a sunny day.

A mass of clouds has come over now, there will be sunny gaps, I'm sure, but I've seen the best of the sunshine today, I think.