AR 2599 with quite good seeing

[Iainp]

Looking through the 160 stills for the animation being processed at the moment, some are quite sharp and detailed. Here's the best I've found so far. Normally I like to colour images but this one shows more in B&W.

Iain 

[RayD]

 Excellent image, and a pleasure to look at.  Almost feels like a whirlpool you could slide in to.

[Linda]

Nice detail. I hope I can take a look this afternoon with my Baader filter. I bet it will look like one spot. You managed to catch a nice bridge over the hole. An some threads.

[Iainp]

Thanks Ray and Linda. Look forward to seeing what you get from this beauty. Yes, that bridge (I didn't know what to call it, looks like a ladder to me!) looks really interesting. Hopefully more will show in the animation I'm just posting. 

Iain 

[Davey-T]

Nicely done Iain, been trying here but very windy and fast moving cloud.

Trying to use the laptop without a sunshade as it keeps blowing away and accidentally ticked the wrong thing in Firecapture and found it was up to 9000 frames when I'd set it to 1000 

Dave

[Iainp]

Ah it's a brave man who doesn't use a shade! I'm happy I grabbed a lot this morning, and i'm not even trying now, as it's so frustrating cloud-dodging isn't it?

 

[Ibbo!]

nicely done

a bit windy and scudding clouds here as well

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice indeed. Had a look over lunch and there is a huge plage area developing there

[xtreemchaos]

cracking single frame Iain, well done mate. charl.

[Pete Presland]

Very nicely done. 

[Linda]

You inspired my to go home a bit early today and put up the 5"  Mak on photo tripod with Baader filter. I could clearly see several bigger spots on the lower left (amici prism), clearly separated. The ring around the spots was also very crisp.

Higher up I saw a big group of very small spots that were well separated.

This was one of my better solar observing sessions. Obviously the sky is very clear.

 

[cshahar]

Great level of detail Iain, particularly in the bridge between the spots, as well as penumbral detail. If I can see penumbral filaments or striations in my images (sometimes it looks a bit mottled if the filaments are not well formed) then I know the seeing is above average.

-Charles

[Iainp]

Thanks again all. Glad you got it Linda! Fingers crossed it's getting bigger and more active. Charles, I know what you mean,  definitely good seeing here, I think this is the most detail I've got out of spots so far even though the image is a little "ragged" and noisy.

Iain