August 16 2021 WL only

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August 16 2021 WL only

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Session time is from 15:30 to 15:50 UTC. Intermittent. The skies are mostly cloudy with both low and high clouds. The seeing appears to be average or just below. The temperature is 73F ( 22.7C )


Orion 70mm Solar Telescope. 25x and 50x ( WL )
I can see three spots marking the location of AR12857 in the NW quadrant. Two bigger ones with a smaller pore in the center. The SDO HMIc 4K image shows two more in addition to this. The SDO HMIc 4K image shows several pores associated with AR12853 to the NW of AR12857 but I can't pick any of them up visually. High clouds my be hampering my efforts. I can softly make out some of the fine solar granulation today.

Though I did not observe in Ha I attached a GONG image to show users here the status of the large prominence on the NE limb.

I was lucky to get any kind of observation today.

James



GONG+SDOHMIc_8-16-21.JPG
GONG+SDOHMIc_8-16-21.JPG (137.01 KiB) Viewed 299 times
AR12857_AR12853_WL_8-16-21.JPG
AR12857_AR12853_WL_8-16-21.JPG (58.13 KiB) Viewed 301 times


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Re: August 16 2021 WL only

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Nice to see your post James :bow

Too much cloud and too little time to consider trying anything today ;)

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Re: August 16 2021 WL only

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Thanks James and you captured the one and only AR and as good as your attached SDO image..

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Re: August 16 2021 WL only

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Today was a quick view through and between clouds. I had no real time to study the sun. I was lucky to have gotten the views I did.


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Re: August 16 2021 WL only

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I'm glad you even got a glimpse James, that is worth more than anything else :)

Thanks for the virtual view :bow

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Re: August 16 2021 WL only

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Many thanks, James. Just too cloudy for anything here.

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Thanks James for the update.


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Re: August 16 2021 WL only

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Carbon60 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:31 am Many thanks, James. Just too cloudy for anything here.

Stu.

Too cloudy here too. Thunderstorms and rain from tropical storm Fred!

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Re: August 16 2021 WL only

Post by Ivan »

Thank you for the interesting description, James. Even a quick glance through a telescope counts towards your task.

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