Images taken on the 8th July 2023 with Canon 70D camera plus a Canon 100-400mm lens fitted with a 2x teleconverter lens with a glass solar filter attached. Twenty images captured with an exposure time 1/500th second and ISO200, stacked in Registak6 and processed in PS.
We had a lovely clear sunny day today and I managed to capture some pictures of this very dark inky black sunspot that looks like the shape of an old fashion keyhole, I wonder what it’s going to do over the next couple of days!
Images taken on the 8th July 2023 with Canon 70D camera plus a Canon 100-400mm lens fitted with a 2x teleconverter lens with a glass solar filter attached. Twenty images captured with an exposure time 1/500th second and ISO200, stacked in Registak6 and processed in PS.
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Solar observing is so thrilling at the moment you never know what you are going to see, this afternoon I saw beautiful prominences all around the limb, sunspots sprinkled all over the surface and some lovely wiggly filaments…. what more could you ask for with our Amazing Sun :-)
Images captured with a Lunt 60mm PT solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 25 images were captured for each set, one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4. SUNSPOT COUNTS HIT A 21-YEAR HIGH: Story from Spaceweather.com https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=03&month=07&year=2023 The sun is partying like it's 2002. That's the last time sunspot counts were as high as they are now. The monthly average sunspot number for June 2023 was 163, according to the Royal Observatory of Belgium's Solar Influences Data Analysis Center. This eclipses every month since Sept. 2022: Solar Cycle 25 wasn't expected to be this strong. When it began in Dec. 2019, forecasters believed it would be a weak cycle akin to its immediate predecessor Solar Cycle 24. If that forecast had panned out, Solar Cycle 25 would be one of the weakest solar cycles in a century.
Instead, Solar Cycle 25 has shot past Solar Cycle 24 and may be on pace to rival some of the stronger cycles of the 20th century. The last time sunspot numbers were this high, the sun was on the verge of launching the Great Halloween Storms of 2003, which included the strongest X-ray solar flare ever recorded (X45),auroras as far south as Texas, and auroras as far south as Texas, and a CME so powerful it was ultimately detected by the Voyager spacecraft at the edge of the solar system. Wow :-o this huge sunspot is just spectacular! Images taken with a Canon 70D camera plus a Canon 100-400mm lens fitted with a 2x tele converter and a glass solar filter, making a focal length of 1280mm. Twenty images were captured with an exposure time 1/640th second and ISO200, stacked in Registack6 and processes in PS. Giant sunspot AR 3354 has a 'beta-gamma-delta' class magnetic field that harbours energy for X-class solar flares. (From information on Spacewether.com on the 1st July 2023) Live view of this huge Sunspot (AR 3354) as seen through my camera and lens on Movie mode, it’s a very big sunspot nearly 10 times the diameter of our Earth…Wow!
How exciting…there were a couple of very large and active prominences around the limb of the Sun late this afternoon, I just managed to capture them before the Sun went down :-)
The images were captured with a Lunt 60mm PT solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 25 images were captured one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4. Jun 1, 2023 NOAA’s GOES satellite time-lapse of Solar Cycle 25 from December 2019 through April 2023 alongside the progression of the number of sunspots. The Solar Ultraviolet Imagers (SUVI) create images of the solar corona at six different extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. NOAA’s space weather forecasters use SUVI imagery to issue alerts and watches for space weather storms. Please go to link below for everything you would want to know about Space Weather.
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/time-lapse-solar-cycle-25-displays-increasing-activity-sun Space Weather Prediction Centre, NOAA/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was very exciting observing the Sun late yesterday afternoon, as there were some very large active prominences around the solar limb.
The one on the northern limb was very fine and looked like it may take off and detach, the other two on the western limb were starting to interact with one another and connect. And to make it more interesting there was another very large active prominence showing itself on the eastern limb…There was also a lot flaring around those two large sunspots AR3296 & AR329 on the solar surface Wow, it’s all very exciting now as we head toward solar maximum! The images were captured with a Lunt 60mm solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 20 images were captured one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4. It was such a beautiful clear day here today that I just had to take some pictures of our Sun :-)
My images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and a Canon 100-400mm lens with 2x tele converter, 20 images were captured and stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS CS4. Exposure time was 1/500th second and ISO200. On the first day of May there were a few active prominences firing away around the limb of the sun with a nice little arch prominence to the south that was interesting to watch as it wavered in space.
There was also some solar flare activity around those active sunspots with a new one coming into view on the eastern edge, now designated AR3293. The images were captured with a Lunt 60mm solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 30 images were captured one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4. I wasn’t really sure what these shimmering undulating bands of light were running along the ships deck just a few minutes before totality, but I did think they might have been those rare shadow bands that I’ve read about during a solar eclipse. Thank goodness I had my camera with me and was able to capture a short movie as I hurried back to my setup on the back deck. They were quite mesmerising and I will never forget that strange pulsating shimmering light…I hope you enjoy the movie! To read more about these fleeting shadow bands please go to the links below:
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/exploring-shadow-bands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_bands https://www.strickling.net/shadowbands.htm |
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