sol...ar pics :)

[ving]

i dont know where you guys get the names of these spots from but took some today...

8"er full ap filter brought to you by thousand islands ;)
2mp cam held up to the EP and unsharp-masked later

[[1ponders]]

Nice shots ving.

Well posted here as originally 798 and then 809 I don't know what its number is now. FYI after each time a sunspot reappears from behind the back side of the sun its given a new number. :shrug:

[xrekcor]

798 is actually 808


I think it is these guy's still calling it 798
http://spaceweather.com/


and these guys have renamed it on it's present run 808
http://www.solarmonitor.org/index.php

which is correct, as Paul say's they are named as they appear even if they are on their 2nd or 3rd pass

Nice images Ving

regards

[[1ponders]]

Thanks Rob :cool2:

[seeker372011]

I just go to SoHO and look up the number of your spot

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

sunspot identification is based on a very complex system

[ving]

thanks narayan. :)
yup, its 808. i didnt get 810 (on the other side)... or rather couldnt. it woudnt sow up on my pics for some reason

[fringe_dweller]

Technically its a sunpot group/region if you get into the nitty gritty of it - even tho they are all obviously related. Also the morphology and evolution of a sunspot group/region dictates its classification too I think? - when it was simply sunspot group 798 originally it was only classed as capable of M-class flares when it came back around it was capable of X-class flares - why spaceweather is still calling it 798 i am not sure - it must be an ambiguous situation
btw Nice catch Ving :) like that filter dude
Kearn

[xrekcor]

I did, kinda

[ving]

well captured rob :)
what film and camera do you use and what settings. thats closer to what i see thru the EP