September 8 2020 Observations. White light challenge.

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September 8 2020 Observations. White light challenge.

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Session time is 11:00am to 12:20pm EDT local time ( US ). Temp 70F at 11:00am and 75F ant 12:20pm. Skies clear with fair seeing.

Coronado SolarMax II 90 DS. 32x, 44.5x, and 64x ( Ha )
I can see eight filaments on the solar disc today. Two easy fluffy ones in the NW shows height/depth well. I also see two in the almost gone receding disturbance in the NW below the bigger proms near the limb. I can also pick up the disturbance plage there too. To the east I see two more filaments. Two more filaments are seen in the far south. There is not much happening in the way of prominences. I see only two small groups on the NE and SE limb. GONG Cerro Tololo shows a third group on the SW limb that is a bit fainter. I never switched to single-stack to try to see them.

I can see three plage areas on the disc. One is the receding disturbance in the NW that is almost gone. The other two are very tiny round slightly brighter points located in the NE and SE quadrants. I can see the spicule layer easily and the spicule mottling shows good contrast and covers the disc.

Celestron NexStar 102GT w/Altair wedge. 50x and 100x ( WL )
I got 5 facular areas but most took considerable effort to see. In the NW I got one associated with the receding disturbance located there. In the far north I did pick up several of the tiny polar faculae located scattered about. The NE had one a bit easier to see near the limb that corresponds to an Ha plage located there. With some difficulty I can see a tiny spot faculae in the SE that corresponds to an Ha plage located there. I can see a single tiny facula in the south polar region. A lone tiny polar faculae. I cannot see any others about. I see no sunspots or pores. Fine granulation covers disc.

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Re: September 8 2020 Observations. White light challenge.

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Thanks for the report James, my solar season is just back to weekends now with the days (and nights) drawing in...


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Re: September 8 2020 Observations. White light challenge.

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Fantastic James, I am so glad you were able to spot some polar faculae. The north pole is the best place to look as you can see it is turned towards us at this time (if you look at Rainer's images). Next you need to watch them and time how long they live for :)

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Re: September 8 2020 Observations. White light challenge.

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Mark,
Yeah, the shortening days and the sun's lower elevation is affecting me too. I don't have as long to observe the sun and the trees in my backyard have now became an obstacle as the sun decreases in elevation.

For British observers like You and Alexandra it's worse. You live at a more northerly latitude that I do.

James


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