Saturday Solar Bonanza

[David Smith]

Unexpected clear skies this morning as the forecast was not promising. Started with the white light full disk, progressed onto hydrogen alpha and still found time at the end to do some white light close-ups. Think I caught the tail end of a flare in one of the Ha close-ups?

20140816 by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

20140816 WL AR1 by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

20140816WL AR2 by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

20140816 Disk by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

20140816 AR1 by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

20140816 AR2 by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

[JB80]

Wonderful David!

It's raining here.

[Steve Ward]

Lovely set there sir ... 

Sat here watching the gap diminish as it wandered this way from your direction , wasn't the least bit fidgety wondering whether it would make it , and wasn't the least bit envious of anyone living west of me ... honest ... 

[Davey-T]

Good work as usual, hoped to try another mosaic today but no big enough gaps in the cloud yet.

Dave

[Montana]

A great series :) all the WL look like paw prints all over the Sun. Great flare, do you have a time to check what it was?

Alexandra

[David Smith]

Thanks all.

@ Alexandra - According to my laptop it was 10:18 this morning. Just downloaded JHelioviewer and confirmed there were several flares in this AR early this morning, the tail end of which was still hanging around at 10:18 BST (09:18 UT)

What a brilliant piece of kit JHelioviewer is

[Pete Presland]

excellent plenty of activity there and another AR region just coming into view.

[Luke]

Lovely set of images, David, great nab of the flare :laugh:

Yesterday was a bit annoying cloud-wise our way. The clouds couldn't make their mind up which way to go so it was hard to judge from the sat pics, and the regular forecasts were hopeless as usual

[sooot]

Great set. Was no good for me yesterday