AR1041 and AR1042?

[rat156]

Hi All,

I set up today to take some picture of AR1041 and was quite disappointed with its size, quite small, not what I expected at all.

It turns out I was imaging the wrong area of the sun, a new active region and sunspot have emerged. I'll let the experts tell me if this is indeed deserving of a sunspot designation, but I reckon it is, so I'll call it sunspot 1042.

Pictures below are matched to the SOHO orientation. An almost full solar disk is being processed (by AVIStack), but will be a little while yet.

Cheers
Stuart

[Matt Wastell]

Ha!
I did the same thing an hour ago!
Great captures Stuart!

[rat156]

Had this message ready to go at 4.05pm, then IIS went down for maintenance, so I had to wait.

Cheers
Stuart

[rat156]

Here's the pic of the solar disk, or at least as much as I can fit in.

Cheers
Stuart

[rat156]

Here's a combination of the three images of Sunspot 1042, two to show the details of the sunspot/active region and another to show the enormous prominence along the limb.

The small blue dot is an image of the Earth to scale(ish).

Cheers
Stuart