New AR just arrived! 20th August 2017

[Stu]

Popped the scopes out this morning to grab a look at the big AR, and was delighted to see a new AR that has just come around the corner. It is just visible on this snap off Solar Monitor.

AR12671 is looking amazing, and huge right in the centre of the disk.

Again, there are some lovely proms on show. There is a nice high contrast arc at say 1 O'clock which looks like it is going to show some action, will check it again in a few minutes.

[DRT]

Nice one, Stu - you've motivated me to get the kit out  

[Stu]

Well worth it Derek.

Annoyingly I think that bright prom probably did something spectacular but I missed it! It has now disappeared. I guess it was a flare?

[Stu]

I'll post these in the StuPOD thread too, but these are phone snaps through the binoviewers. Looks like I caught the new AR too  

First one as taken, second cropped and a little processing. Next two just closer crops and a little more fiddling  

[Mark at Beaufort]

Just taken out the PST and DS and AR2671 is extremely active - fantastic view. There is also, as you stated, another active area on the South East side at a orientation at about 150 degrees. There going to have fund tomorrow in the United States .

[Stu]

15 minutes ago, Mark at Beaufort said:

Just taken out the PST and DS and AR2671 is extremely active - fantastic view. There is also, as you stated, another active area on the South East side at a orientation at about 150 degrees. There going to have fund tomorrow in the United States .

Keep an eye on the new AR Mark, very active!

[DRT]

21 minutes ago, Mark at Beaufort said:

Just taken out the PST and DS and AR2671 is extremely active - fantastic view. There is also, as you stated, another active area on the South East side at a orientation at about 150 degrees. There going to have fund tomorrow in the United States .

I thought you were planning to be in the States for the big show, Mark?

[DRT]

41 minutes ago, Stu said:

I'll post these in the StuPOD thread too, but these are phone snaps through the binoviewers. Looks like I caught the new AR too  

First one as taken, second cropped and a little processing. Next two just closer crops and a little more fiddling  

Nice pics, Stu - this is the biggest AR I have seen for a long time and it's nice to see some activity after the last few months of drought  

[Mark at Beaufort]

1 minute ago, DRT said:

I thought you were planning to be in the States for the big show, Mark?

I was Derek. I was going to stay with my Son near San Francisco but I could not find any suitable accommodation near Madras - Oregan. I did not fancy the 9 hour drive, sleeping in the car, then driving the 9 hours back. By the look of the traffic going to Madras I might have spent several nights in the car.

In the end I felt it was too much hassle so I am hoping to view the partial eclipse tomorrow if it stay clear to the horizon.

[Mark at Beaufort]

Looking at SAT24 I am not going to have the Sun for much longer. Had another look at the new sunspot - noticed a spicule rising above the surface.

[DRT]

I'm only managing to get quick views through gaps in the cloud. Just had my first look at it through the Lunt 50 Ha and there is lots of activity around the limb, including a sizeable thin loop sticking out from behind the new AR. Perhaps more of that to come around the limb later? 

I want to get the Quark and 152 out but I know that as soon as I set it up those gaps in the cloud will close 

[Peter Drew]

A lucky clear patch at 11.30am gave me a first view of the oncoming new AR. Looks very promising, at 11.35 it was showing a thin fragmented line of erupting material similar to a WWII line of tracer shells.  

[garryblueboy]

Struggling with the clouds here today trying to get first light with the Tak 

[Stu]

I noticed that, later on in the morning it was possible to detect that the new AR had rotated slightly further onto the disk. It had opened out just a fraction and the lines representing other parts of the AR running up the limb had thickened a little.

Forecast pretty poor for a few days I think, lucky to see it today.