The Sun on June 8, 2024

The Sun's disk looks significantly less active today. However, AR 3697, which is the group disappearing over the limb on the right of this image, has the potential to produce X-Class flares.

Today's Sun--June 7, 2024.

 Today's Sun (6/7/24). This is the best 30% of a 2,000 frame AVI, captured with the Seestar/Baader, stacked in Autostakkert with wavelets in Registax. A greast deal of detail is visible, inlcuding granulation and faculae (bright "clouds" on the edges of the Sun's disk). The crop (no enlargement or drizzle) shows AR 3703 (on the left) and AR 3697 (on the right). AR 3793 has the potential to produce M-Class flares.

Today's Sun taken with the Baader Filter June 6, 2024

 Here's a full disk and cropped image of the Sun today taken with the Baader filter. The full disk is the best 30% of a 2,000 image AVI capture. Wavelets in Registax. The crop is from a 4x enlargement of the original full disk image in Topaz Gigapixel AI (High Fidelity Mode). I'm impressed with the detail this filter captures.

The Sun on June 5, 2024 and a filter comparison

 Today’s sun and a comparison: Baader vs Thousand Oaks solar filters. I followed the advice of wiser heads and swapped out the supplied Seestar TO filter for a Baader 5.0 film. Of course, we’re expecting clouds for the next couple of days. Today it it wall-to- wall low, grey clouds. But there were a couple a 2-3 minute slight clearings, and I thought I’d put the Baader to the test. Luckily, the scope found the sun in less than a minute. Unluckily, the clear sky periods were no more than a few seconds long, so I had to settle for a single image rather than a stackable video. The single TO images I have were all taken under much better conditions of clear skies and steadier seeing. Below are two comparison cropped images to compare the filters. The TO is orange. Of course, everyone should make up their own minds, but to me the Baader is significantly superior, with much better contrast and detail, despite the poor conditions. All that I did here was crop the images. I did no other processing. To me, the Baader single capture looks better than the stacks I captured and processed with the TO.

The Sun on June 4, 2024

 The Seestar did a very nice job today of capturing spot groups and solar granulation. Here are two images: cropped and full disk. AR 3697--the largest group, has the potrential to produce X-Class flares.

The Sun on June 3, 2024

 Imaged low in the morning sky before clouds rolled in, here is today's Sun (June 3, 2024). AR 3697 (close to the center of the disk), has the potential to create X-Class flares.

The Sun on June 1, 2024

 I accidentally permanently deleted my full disk white light AVIs today before processing,, so I just have a single, record shot taken throught haze. However, I did manage to get some decent video in H-Alpha mode, and I have included those images and crops. As Spaceweather reports: "Sunspots AR3691 and 3697 have 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic fields that harbor energy for X-class solar flares." The white light image is deceptively peaceful; the HA images tella very different story!