 We had cloud all day again, but I managed to capture these two large sunspot groups through a thin veil of cirrus cloud, they have now rotated nearly to the centre of the solar surface. Images were taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with attached solar filter, 20 images stacked in RegiStax 6, processed in PS. 
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 ~ Large sunspots AR 3905 & AR 3906 on eastern limb of the Sun 24th November 2024 ~ Here we go again Woohoo! Large sunspots AR 3905 & AR 3906 on the eastern limb of the Sun, it’s all happening again for Solar Max :-) I managed to capture these images very late yesterday afternoon between the clouds…. Images were taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with attached solar filter and processed in RegiStax6 and PS.   I just love it when we have an early morning thunderstorm, I raced outside with my camera when the Sun peeked out in the eastern sky to see what was happening in the west, and there it was! A beautiful rainbow to light up my day :-) Image was taken with a Canon 70D camera and Tamron 18-400mm lens with settings at 1/350th second and ISO200.   ~ Incredible looking storm clouds (Mammatus Clouds) ~ Oh Wow, this is what the sky looked like before the thunderstorm hit, how incredible are these clouds they looks so ferocious!!! Mammatus clouds get their name from the cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of the cloud and are usually associated with severe thunderstorms. We have been having thunderstorms nearly every afternoon at the moment but its been a long time since I’ve seen these amazing clouds…this time we didn’t get hail thank goodness, just a lot of heavy rain, thunder and lightning. Images were just taken with my iPhone as the storm was approaching very quickly and I worry about getting hit with lightning!!!! Some more information on these Mammatus Clouds at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2020/mammatus-cloud-show-captured-by-lucky-scientists/  For an excellent High Resolution cloud chart please go to NOAA site at: https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/clouds/nws-cloud-chart     These two large sunspots on the eastern side of the Sun are very large and active, AR 3878 has produced another X-class solar flare :-o its second in the last two days as reported on Spaceweather.com on the 1st November 2024. Images taken with a Seestar telescope with the attached solar filter, 20 images captured then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS. I used the 1x, 2x and then 4x feature within the telescope; it is an amazing little instrument for solar observing. https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=01&month=11&year=2024 ANOTHER X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE, BUT NO CME: Active sunspot AR3878 erupted again on Oct. 31st (2120 UTC), producing an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a spray of hot plasma emerging from the blast site:  Photo Credit: SDO https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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AuthorI just love being under the heavens, come on a journey with me and I’ll share some of the amazing wonders of the Universe with you. Noeleen :-) 
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