Sun Today

[mog3768]

First day of viewing for quite a while and what a lovely greeting.

Full of activity and the most lovely prom at 2 O'clock.

If you get the chance well worth a look.

The wife has spent more time at the scope than me.

[Pig]

Sounds great Mog :smiley: apart from the Mrs hogging the scope of course

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I looked at the sun intermittently throughout the afternoon using the SolarMax 60mm and a couple of times with the Solar Spectrum/APM 80mm combo. Gorgeous proms on either side of the north pole. The westward one became quite faint, but the eastward one was superb. Beautiful action on the disk too

[Luke]

Nice report! The sun has been really good the past few weeks. Today I saw the big prom and thought, oh, it's lost a bit of weight, still impressive. Then I panned across and saw the actual big prom   And another half decent one, a bit fainter. What struck me this morning is that there was quite a lot of activity around some of the smaller spots too. Plenty going on in h-alpha. I started the morning thinking I would definitely image white light after starting in h-alpha but there were plenty of goodies on offer so I did not make the white light, alas. Hopefully tomorrow!

[mog3768]

Yes like you Luke I thought I would get some viewing today but unfortunately the cloud cover

was to bad. Might miss out on a bit of viewing with Mrs at the scope, but guess I am lucky that she takes such an interest.

Michael it seems as if the sun is always shinning in Netherlands could you send some our way.

I am looking to buy a ccd camera for the sun any advice on a suitable candidate would be appreciated.

Have tried with my DSLR on the Lunt 60PT but just can not get the focus right