8th June Sun

[Qualia]

With the promise of summer storms this week, I guess I'm coming to the end of quite a good innings: about 36 days of cloudless sunshine. This morning the Sun put on a spectacular display in both white light and H-alpha.

What stood out are the very active regions peppering and snaking across the disc, a large prominence on the eastern limb greeting the morning while on the opposite side were fountains of jets and surges.

The sketches were made using chalks on black paper:

[jkwhinfrey]

They're getting better and better Qualia.

After a miserable May things have improved enormously here, and the Sun's putting on a show :-) as you show in your sketches. I've been watching these ARs since they appeared on the limb. I chanced to spot a C class flare go off yesterday in the big group furthest west.

James

[Pig]

Fantastic sketches Rob, I am starting to think you have sold your soul

[Qualia]

Thank you for the kind and supporting comment James and Shaun. I tried a new technique today in white light which I'm quite pleased with, so will have another go tomorrow. H-alpha is always a bit touch and go, depending how the chalks are layered. The one today has the limb too red I'm not sure if black paper is the right medium for this, so will have a shot on whitish paper tomorrow....if the storms haven't arrived by then