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The Sun is peppered with many sunspots right across the solar surface from the east to west, with AR 3936 being the largest active region. Images were taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with attached solar filter; twenty images were stacked in RegiStax6 and processed n PS :-D 
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~ The solar surface on Christmas Eve 24th December 2024 ~  The solar surface today with those large sunspot groups near the centre of the Sun on Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas to everyone on planet Earth and Happy Holidays :-D My images were taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with attached solar filter; twenty images were stacked in RegiStax6 and processed n PS.   ~ Large sunspots groups AR 3927, AR 3928 & AR 3932 on eastern side of Sun ~ ~ 22nd December 2024 ~ It’s quite amazing all these new sunspots rotating into view on the eastern side of the Sun, there are now another two new sunspots on the eastern limb to add to all the other ones Wow! Images were taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with attached solar filter; twenty images were stacked in RegiStax6 and processed n PS…I’m excited! Today is the summer Solstice here in the Southern Hemisphere ‘Happy Solstice’ ~ Sunspots AR 3926, 3927 & 3928 on the 21st December 2024 ~ There are a lot of very interesting small sunspots that have developed on the eastern limb of the Sun and they look to be quite active! My images were taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with attached solar filter; twenty images were stacked in RegiStax6 and processed n PS.   Sunspot groups AR 3917 & AR 3920 are now growing larger on the surface of the Sun, my images were taken with a Seestar telescope with the attached solar filter. Twenty images were stacked in Registax6 and processed in PS. My image was displayed as the daily Sunspot image on Spaceweather.com on the 12th December 2024 Yay! :-D https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=12&month=12&year=2024
  We are in the middle of a heatwave today with the temperature at 35 degrees C…it’s so so hot for taking pictures of the Sun…. but I did it :-D The sunspots closest to the western limb are AR 3910 & AR 3912, toward the middle are AR 3917 & AR 3916. Images were taken with a Seestar telescope with attached solar filter; twenty images were stacked in RegiStax6 and processed n PS. We are not getting the daily sun images on Spaceweather.com because there has been a flood at the Stanford University that gets the data from the SDO data servers. Here is a note from Spaceweather.com on the 8th December 2024; They are now using our images for the daily Sunspot posts: Note: A flood at Stanford University has damaged a number of important SDO data servers. Repairs may not be completed until 2025. As a result, Daily Sun images will be coming from readers of Spaceweather.com for the foreseeable future. Thank you, citizen scientists!  IMPULSIVE X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: Sunspot 3912 erupted today (Dec. 8 @ 0906 UT), producing an X2-class solar flare and a shortwave radio blackout over southern Africa. The impulsive flare is the latest in a series of increasingly intense explosions this weekend:   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.   ~ 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.     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/
 Wow, there is another large active sunspot emerging on the eastern limb of the Sun (just designated AR 3879). I only just managed to capture these two images late yesterday afternoon in between banks of rolling clouds. Images taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with attached solar filter, 20 images captured for each set, stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.  |
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