AR 1040 - formerly known as 1035

[Matt Wastell]

Hi all

It was great to see AR 1035 completed a lap of the Sun and it is still considered active! I think it departed on the 20th December and was out of view until nowish.
It has been sputtering with C-class X-ray solar flares too! The region also displays a huge dark filament - a mass of gas suspended by magnetic fields over the chromosphere.

Imaged through Solarmax 40, 2.5 Powermate, DMK31 – AVI’s stacked and processed in Registax5.
Conditions were so so.

The first image is of the region departing (around the western limb) - 18 December - and image 2 is the same region reappearing over the eastern limb - from today.

Thanks for looking!

[mswhin63]

Great images but look very different. Any reason for the title change.

[rat156]

Looking good Matt, at least you bothered to get yours the right way up!

Cheers
Stuart

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Malcolm
I think the numbers allocated for active regions only stand for the time we see them. If they make the full rotation it is assigned the next number - after 1035 came and went another 4 active regions formed so when 1035 rotated back into view it became 1040.
I guess in the good old days they had no way of really knowing if one active region was the same one or not - it makes sense I guess!
I hope this assists in your question.
Oh, thanks for looking!

[Matt Wastell]

Thanks Stuart - I only did this as I recently saw E is W and visa versa when it comes to such objects - I had to flip the image - I now use SOHO and this site http://www.spacew.com/sunnow/ as a reference and I will try to do so in the future.
In the past I just tried to get balanced images - I still reackon visual appeal is often better than accurate references.

Thanks for looking!

[Dennis]

Hi Matt

Congratulations on making Spaceweather with your AR1040 images – top stuff! I see you have got 2 days front page coverage for these shots!

Cheers

Dennis

[Paul Haese]

Nice going Matt. Waiting patiently for the cloud to disappear here. Would like to get a turn at imaging this beast again. However I reckon this is a little further on from the previous 11035. I have been noticing that active regions seem to open up just a little further east from a previous active region. I suppose part of the magnetic knots erupting through the field.

Nice images.