Various active regions, prominences, bags and pants - 15 August 2021

[Hughsie]

A few hours after I finished by solar observing yesterday, a few new active regions sprung up all conveniently located together and shown here.

On the 13th August I noticed I had a light leak in my image train creating light smears across the sensor. The Lunt telescope came with a a cloth bag which is pretty useless as bags go as you can’t place the scope in the bag and then into the carry case.

When I noticed the light leaking in I thought I needed something to cover it. My wife had the washing out and I thought about using a pair of my pants (underwear for any Americans reading this). But as I already had my head under a black sheet so I could view my laptop screen without glare, the last thing I needed was someone looking over the fence seeing a man under a sheet with his pants on his telescope which is pointing at the Sun.

Somehow, the Lunt bag seemed more appropriate.

Unfortunately, I forgot to use the bag today despite it being smack bang in front of me. 

Don’t ask if there were any pants to hand.....just look at the pictures and smears!

 

Image 1 - The solar disc revealing AR12855 / 57 & 53.

 

Images 2 & 3 - A closer view of the three active regions mentioned above both in mono and RGB.

     

 

Image 4 - A nice prominence on the South East limb.

 

Image 5 - A much larger prominence on the North East limb.