Sun in Whitelight 24th February 2024.

[Steve Ward]

Long wait for the fog to lift meant no time for any close-ups today ( Six Nations beckons ... )

 

 

 

[Rusted]

You captured incredible detail in the major spot active region for a full disk! Light bridges everywhere!

No need for close-ups when a few clicks expand the image in all its glory!

Congratulations on truly exceptional images.

[Damien2904]

Amazing images! 

[Steve Ward]

10 minutes ago, Rusted said:

You captured incredible detail in the major spot active region for a full disk! Light bridges everywhere!

No need for close-ups when a few clicks expand the image in all its glory!

Congratulations on truly exceptional images.

 

Thanks for the kind words Chris ... 

[Gonariu]

Waw!!!!

[Stu]

Fantastic! Just managed a very quick peek through cloud today, it’s huge! Not looking promising tomorrow unfortunately. Nice to see it in your image though 👍

[John]

Great images of an amazing looking active region 🙂

I wonder how large the largest AR observed was ?

 

[maw lod qan]

Excellent image!

[Steve Ward]

4 hours ago, John said:

Great images of an amazing looking active region 🙂

I wonder how large the largest AR observed was ?

 

Not sure historically , I'll have to have a Google.

The biggest I've had the pleasure of witnessing was back in October of 2014 ... 😲

 

Edited February 25 by Steve Ward

[Steve Ward]

https://nso.edu/blog/nso-team-works-on-historical-sunspot-digitization/

[MalcolmP]

On 24/02/2024 at 21:28, John said:

Great images of an amazing looking active region 🙂

I wonder how large the largest AR observed was ?

 

Been talking size and records over here 
https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/419441-feb-26th-ar3590-is-a-record-breaker-60-as-big-as-the-carrington-event-in-sept-1859-and-the-biggest-this-cycle/
My big unaided eye one was back in 1956 at 2400 and was spoken of as a record breaker then. SpaceWeatherLive is calling this latest one at 1600 60% of the Carrington one.
 

Edit  Ooops that links the top, scroll well down ! Or try this https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/419441-feb-26th-ar3590-is-a-record-breaker-60-as-big-as-the-carrington-event-in-sept-1859-and-the-biggest-this-cycle/?do=findComment&comment=4463576

 

 

Edited February 26 by MalcolmP