New Sunspot! AR2734 & Full Disc in 6562.8A | March 6th 2019

[MalVeauX]

Heya,

I haven't seen the sky for over a week with this dreadful weather lately here in Florida, literally just nothing. A cold front just blew in and over night it went from 80F+ and all rain and clouds, to dropping in the 30's F and 50~60's F during the day, along with it came a clear blue sky, no clouds at all, all day, and good transparency. The seeing was not as good, but, it was worth wrestling through it a bit. The seeing was decent from 9am to 10am, but it fell apart after that so I didn't get enough time to get good data on the one fairly bright prominence on the limb and could only do a single wavelength today as the seeing just didn't allow for anything else after 10am or so. Anyhow, we have a new sunspot! AR2734 received designation today and it went from a wee active region to showing a nice dipole with visible umbra and a little plage area between the poles and some tiny little filaments whirling around the field. It's so tiny still! On a full disc you could almost not see it without paying close attention. But, at larger scale, it comes to life nicely.

C8 + Quark

C8 + Quark + PST Etalon

Full Disc

Earth Scale

Equipment

C8 Edge HD SCT with Aires 200mm Tri-Band D-ERF & Baader UV/IR Block Filter (Edge 0.7x Focal Reducer utilized)
ST80 masked to 60mm Refractor + Baader UV/IR Block Filter + 0.5x Focal Reducer
Daystar Quark Chromosphere
PST Etalon
ASi174MM

Very best,

[cletrac1922]

Mal

Great effort, and Tks for the input

Very interested in solar viewing as well

Have had similar weather pattern to you, due to Cyclone OMA last week

Been following the development of sunspot AR2734 on Space weather

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Also down load DSO APP The Sun Now, Android device

AIA 304 shows the prominence's

AIA 193 shows the hot active regions, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections will appear bright here. The dark areas - call coronal holes - are places where very little radiation is emitted, yet are the main source of solar wind particles

The solar wind particles, is what causes the auroras over the Arctic Circle region

John

 

[Craney]

Nice images.

Wow!  ...that's some ERF   !!!

[Pete Presland]

Super images, nice to see another spot finally after 30+ days