April 10, 2016: Monster sunspot in H-alpha

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just had the SolarMax-II 60 DS out to grab a gap between clouds, and the big sunspot is really quite spectacular. The are also some filaments visible, two of which are to the south west of the big spot. These latter look so dark and compact in the DS configuration that you could almost mistake them for another sunspot

[Moonshane]

Agreed Michael. It looks like it is shaped like an eagle to me. There's a lovely 'rosette' of filaments around It too. Plus a couple of small floating proms

[Piero]

It's really massive! Just watching it in white light! What a beauty!!  

[goose35]

48 minutes ago, Piero said:

It's really massive! Just watching it in white light! What a beauty!!  

Same here. Just viewing and sketched it through the 10x50's bigges single spot ive seen to date.

[Piero]

1 minute ago, goose35 said:

Same here. Just viewing and sketched it through the 10x50's bigges single spot ive seen to date.

That's cool! Any chance you will post your sketch?  

[goose35]

In my gallery

HERE

[bish]

Been out looking in white light with the mak. It's a good one. I've tried to photograph it.

[Moonshane]

here's my sketch using 80mm apo, Lunt wedge and 11mm Delite (43x)

 

[Davey-T]

Lovely sketch Shane, wish I could draw, not that I've seen a long enough view of it today.

Dave

[Moonshane]

Trust me Dave. I can do dots and smudges but attempting to draw any sort of detail in Ha makes my drawing skills reduce to those of an average chimp.

[Davey-T]

2 minutes ago, Moonshane said:

Trust me Dave. I can do dots and smudges but attempting to draw any sort of detail in Ha makes my drawing skills reduce to those of an average chimp.

Good as that a, mine is a very below average chimp and that's probably an insult to chimps 

Dave

[bish]

Nice sketch. Looks like 30 or so small spots close to the big one. 

[paulastro]

Thanks Michael, a great description.

[laudropb]

Very nice description. I finally got a quick look at it about teatime today, but seeing was not great.

[Pete Presland]

It is a fantastic swirling mass at the moment in HA, with some superb filaments around it.