The Textures of a Spotless Sun

[cshahar]

With no sunspots to speak of in the last three days, I looked for interesting chromospheric features that are evident in H-Alpha. Although these are not active regions per se, they still have the quality of abstract art. There were some nice filaments as well. Below is a 4-frame mosaic. These images were taken on Friday morning.

I also made an animation for practice purposes. It is obvious that the area in question is not an active region, because there is little dynamism happening. On the other hand, if you stare at the video long enough, subtle changes are certainly evident! The video represents about 20 minutes in real time.

-Charles

[Steve Ward]

Good to see that it's still alive , was beginning to doubt it going by my 'whitelight' view this morning ...

 

[cshahar]

It is definitely alive. I saw an active region designation on Solar Monitor, AR2549. But it looked like it is just beyond the sun's fading side, which confused me a bit.

[xtreemchaos]

very Dynamic Detail Charles and a very nice sharp animation.well done mate.thanks  charl.

[David Smith]

Great shot Charles. Quite a difference between the quiet white light images and turbulent H Alpha.

[Pete Presland]

Very nicely done. 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice captures, like the animation

[DRT]

Lovely images. I'm sitting with my Baader wedge and Quark and I must say there is not much to see. The seeing is so bad here it is like looking at a sunset across a desert heat haze. Wobble, wobble, wobble!

Or it might be the lager

[Davey-T]

Nicely done Charles, still no Sun here.

Dave

[cshahar]

Thanks everyone. I had to get this session in as it will be raining for the next 5 days. Hopefully we shall see some sunspots by then!