New Active Region (AR2755?), High Res & Full Discs | Jan 2nd 2020

[MalVeauX]

Heya,

Woke up to a fairly decent sky this morning without rain, been a while since we've not had rain daily, weird storms near Florida lately. Bleh! Anyhow, seeing was average to good at some moments. Took a peak at two noteable features, the new unnamed active region has visible umbra, likely to be named AR2755 I assume, the poles are that of cycle 25, so we are on 3 cycle 25 spots in a row in such a short period which is really interesting activity. The largest umbra shows a light bridge already, so it is already decaying and will not likely get bigger but rather diminish as it progresses I think. Still glad to see it. There is also a filaprom to see on the limb, North West quadrant that is nice!

B&W:

Colored:

Earth Scale:

Equipment:

C8 Edge + Aries D-ERF
Baader Red CCD-IR Block + PST Etalon + 10mm BF (Chromospher)
Baader Red CCD-IR Block + 610nm Long Pass (Photosphere)
ASI290MM

52mm F11 (ED80 masked)
Baader Red CCD-IR Block + PST Etalon + 10mm BF (Chromosphere)
Baader Blue CCD-IR Block + E.O 430nm (Photosphere)

Very best,

[Sunshine]

Sweet bit of kit there, is that a giant ERF filter? if so, that must have created a small black hole in your wallet lol, beautiful images as usual, i wonder when the sun will stir up again.

[maw lod qan]

Excellent images. Starting to see a growing group here in Florida.

[Pete Presland]

That is a good size A/R, nice to see some activity again already from the new cycle 25