Coronado SolarMax II 60 DS. 16x and 21.5x ( Ha )
After considerable tuning and focusing I could see three active region plages. The South-Central disc shows AR12771 with a couple of attending small filaments. To it's SouthEast I see another bright plage with a thinner long wormlike filament. The plage itself looks like a loop of spotty bright beads! If the seeing would allow and if I had the scope with me, the SMII90 would have given a bigger better view. To the north of AR12771 I see another bright plage with no visible filaments. I see only one lone filament on the disc besides the AR associated ones. It's a small dark thing on the NorthEast part of the disc. I see only two proms. A small bright double one on the SW limb and a larger fainter one on the NW limb. Low contrast spicule mottling covers the disc.
Orion 70mm Solar Telescope. 25x and 50x ( WL )
The only detail I could see was the faint faculae associated with a plage seen in Ha on the SE quad of the disc. No spots. No pores. Not even granulation!!
Carpe Lumen!
James
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