After 5 days of particularly objectionable weather and an absolute soaking, we were desperate to try and catch an update on the solar activity today. Although it wasn't raining, all images were taken through high clouds and the seeing could be best described as brutal. Meteoblue gave 3.41 arc seconds, indexes of 2 and 1 and the jet stream was 30m/s. Who could ask for more? It was a pity as there were some very impressive proms and the huge active regions AR3116 and 3112 remain interesting. It was just great to see first hand even this much
White light image taken with 6" SCT, ASI178MM and 540nm filter.
Full disk Ha image taken with Daystar Solar Scout 60 double stacked with Lunt 40 etalon, ASI178MM camera and 0.5 reducer.
Close up Ha image taken with 72ED, Solar Scout Quark and ASI178MM.