Longest day , plenty action.

[cotterless45]

The proms are back with a few free floating , some great surface action, http://spaceweather.com/  Nick.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice sketch. Wall to wall cloud here, alas

[Mark at Beaufort]

Thanks Nick. Its great to have some action again especially with 3 sunspots AR2713, AR2714 and the best AR2715. I am going to try out my new 80mm f4.1 finderscope in white light and the double stack PST. Its showing clear skies all day - fingers crossed.

[Patbloke]

Great pics as usual Nick...

I'm watching on Slooh using the Canary 5 telescope... 

Living in a first floor flat and not having either a garden or solar scope - Slooh is brilliant for me! I can watch in stunning detail and the focus drifts in and out.

There is an article in this months Astronomy Now about imaging using the scopes by Nik Szymanek (He knows a bit about imaging ?) The good thing about Canary 5 is that it's rarely offline with bad weather, one thing is I can't see any proms... But it's a great conversation piece when guests arrive... plus it's always red hot in my flat!!!!

[Mark at Beaufort]

Some nice activity using the PST + Double stack. A few small Proms  plus some plage around the sunspots especially AR2713. There is also nice dark filament just above the sunspot.

[John]

I have the ED120 out with the Lunt Wedge installed - lovely views of this solar photosphere activity ?

Thanks for the "heads up" Nick

[Davey-T]

Just about to go take a look, bit too windy for imaging.

Dave

[John]

Theres a more subtle active area plus a small spot close to the W limb as well - separate activity area I guess  ?

Two outreach sessions recently and the Sun was as plain as a pikestaff - today it's packed with activity

 

[Davey-T]

Had a look, seeing is abysmal, really hard to focus, wind gusting, passing clouds so typical, some nice features on view and awful conditions 

Dave

[AdeKing]

Thanks for the heads-up Nick.

I just popped out with a pair of budget Celestron Eclipsmart 10x25mm Solar binoculars that @BinocularSky mentioned on another thread and I could clearly see the two regions forming AR2715, but obviously couldn't see any detail at 10x mag.

Will try to get the scope out tonight when I get home from work.

[BinocularSky]

1 hour ago, AdeKing said:

I just popped out with a pair of budget Celestron Eclipsmart 10x25mm Solar binoculars that @BinocularSky mentioned on another thread and I could clearly see the two regions forming AR2715, but obviously couldn't see any detail at 10x mag.

& thanks @AdeKing for tagging me - just done the same. ?

 

[Mark at Beaufort]

Still some action taking place. AR2173 and AR2175 have some nice plage. There are some small filaments on the NE of the disc and there is a broken arch prom on the SE side.

Observed with PST + DS + TeleVue 8-24 zoom.