H-alpha 15th May: Sketch and Report

[Qualia]

After the rather hot and muggy day of yesterday, today brings with a more calming 30ºC+ and the seeing is excellent. This morning the Sun put on a spectacular display in both white light and H-alpha. What stood out are the very active regions snaking across the disc and the humongous prominences soaring and exploding all over the solar limb; surges, sprays and free floating fragments.

The sketch was made using chalks but no matter what I do, they still seem to come out blurry when passed over to SGL. Howeve, I find that if you actually click on the image the sketch improves quite a bit.

With a couple of months practice now, these H-alpha sketches are not nearly taking so long and within reason are completed from start to finish within 30 minutes.

[Pig]

very spectacular indeed Rob  30 minutes !!!!! I couldn't do that in 30 years.

[Scott]

you've got a gift there Rob, thanks for sharing it with us mere mortals

[sammak127]

I really like that. such an interesting way of representing the sun,

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Great report and sketch again Rob

[Luke]

Wow, you're not kidding that it improves when you click on it!

The sun was so busy this morning in h-alpha, I had limited time and it was so busy I did not make it into the land of white light, bet that was a belter too. May tomorrow be sunny!

[mikeDnight]

Love the sketch, truly superb!

Very 3D! :-)

Mike

[Qualia]

Thank you for the kind comments. I still need to work at this, for the original is a little lighter but when posting up it becomes a blur and when you click on it, the sketch comes out different again and darker. Regardless, you are all very kind for giving such support and little by little I will try to improve the presentation