August 26 2021 Observations

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August 26 2021 Observations

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Session time is from 14:15 to 15:06 UTC. The skies are mostly clear. The seeing is fair. The temperature is 79F ( 26.1C ).


Coronado SolarMax II 60 DS. 16x and 25x ( Ha )
I can see eight plage/disturbances on the Sun today in Ha! AR12859 now nearing the CLM in the northern hemisphere shows it's tattered plage flanked by an easy filament NE of it's largest sunspot. The filament is Y shaped. Well to the NW lies another filament. I can see two disturbances east of AR12859. A fairly bright plage near the limb and between it and AR12859 lies a low contrast more difficult to see disturbance. Later I notice a ruffling above the plage near the eastern ( NE ) limb. AR12860 in the SE is easy to see with three spots being visible within. A dark broken filament is seen SW of it. NE of AR12860 I can see without difficulty a double plage near the limb. I can also see a bright but small plage in the SW quadrant near the limb. Some ruffling is also seen in the NW near a prominence located on the limb there. Filaments are still an easy sight to see in the southern hemisphere.

Prominences are small. I see them in the NW, SW and the SE. GONG shows fainter ones in the NE and NW but I cannot see them in double stack.

The mottles are easy today.


Orion 70mm Solar Telescope 25x and 50x ( WL )
I see 7 areas of activity visible in white light today. AR12859 shows 4 spots. The largest western spot shows an easy penumbra. To the east of AR12859 near the limb I see an easy double patch of faculae. The SW component of these contains a single small spot. AR12860 in the SE shows a string of small spots and pores strung between a larger NW spot and a double SE spot(s). I count a total of 15 spots/pores in the group! The three larger spots all sport penumbrae around their umbrae. NE of AR12860 lies a double facula. SDOHMI imagery shows a tiny pore in the northern component. I could not see it. The SW limb also shows faculae to my small refractor. SDOHMIc also shows two pores here. I could not pick them out visually. I can also see two patches of faculae in the NW.

I can easily see the fine granulation across the photosphere today. The seeing is certainly better than what I had yesterday. I would have used the bigger scopes if I would have had time but these actually did very well today!


Carpe Diem!

James



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Re: August 26 2021 Observations

Post by Ivan »

In recent days, a lot of interesting things have been happening, you are great at getting everything locally and interesting to describe. I'm glad you were lucky with visibility today. So far, we have +13 Celsius and impenetrable clouds.

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Re: August 26 2021 Observations

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Perhaps I should take over the AR numbering system James, as the single N.E. spot has been around long enough to be called AR2861...

Anyhow thanks for your usual informative..

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Re: August 26 2021 Observations

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Ivan,
The SMII60 did really well today. It surprises me sometimes. The seeing was better than yesterday and that helped too. 13C. That's cool.

Terry,
Have at it! You usually are on top of things before me on the numbering of active regions. I'll give you a vote!

Thanks.

James


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Re: August 26 2021 Observations

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Maybe I can see it today 🙂


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Re: August 26 2021 Observations

Post by Montana »

Sounds like a wealth of active regions sprouting on the disc each day, the numbers can't keep up :)

Thanks James :hamster:

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Re: August 26 2021 Observations

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MAURITS wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:58 am Maybe I can see it today 🙂

Good luck Maurits!


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