Solar Activity 14 Apr

[brianb]

Cloud broke mid morning showing a sky with reasonable transparency (though still with some interference from drifting low cloud) but very wobbly seeing.

Another relatively quiet day on the Sun, the disc was blank in white light apart from a small patch of faint faculae near the west limb.

0946 UT. PST CaK @ f/10, DMK41

AR 1062 appears fairly quiet in Ha, too:

0959 UT. Solarscope 60 @ f/16, DMK21

There are interesting filaments near the west limb

0957 UT. Solarscope 60 @ f/16, DMK21

and near in the northern hemisphere, close to the meridian

0956 UT. Solarscope 60 @ f/16, DMK21

Lots of prominences, including an interesting group at the north limb

1008 UT. Solarscope 60 @ f/16, DMK21

a tall "spike" on the SW limb

1001 UT. Solarscope 60, DMK21

and an interesting group on the ESE limb which looked as though it might be another detaching CME - not in the same class as yesterday's "monster" though

1032 UT. Solarscope 60 @ f/16, DMK21

Transparency moderate between frequent thin drifting low cloud. Seeing bad to very bad with an apparent tendency to get worse. Temp 13C, wind variable in speed & direction, mostly SE force 1-2.

[Merlin66]

Very nice collection of images!

Clouded out here today, but gave some opportunity to review the images from yesterday.....

[RogerMc]

Really nice images there Brian. I was totally clouded out today as well.