The Sun on July 31,2024.

The Sun is very active at the moment. The inverted Ha image below (PST plus Solarmax II) shows the swirling maelstrom of magnetic fields that are producing X-Class flares ( the darker the areas in this image, the more intense the emissions). I’ve also included that white light image of today’s Sun, as well as a crop that shows an interesting tiny ring sunspot structure near the middle of the image.

 

The Sun on August 30, 2024

 The Sun continues with strong activity today, with AR3765 and AR3766 (center in the cropped image) producing X-Class flares. The Sun image stack was captured with interruptions from passing hazy clouds—hence the processing artifacts on the full disk image.

Sh 2-132

 Here’s an image of Sh 2-132, the Lion Nebula. This is a stack of almost 3 hours of 10 second integrations with the Seestar,

stacked and processed in Siril, noise reduction in Topaz, and tweaks in Affinity and Photoshop.

The Sun on July 29, 2024

AR3765-67 is producing close to X-Class energy flares. I've included a closeup of that region.

The Sun on July 28, 2024

 AR3765-67 (marked), has the potential to produce X-Class flares. I've also included a cropped, Ha image of this area. The image lacks sharpness asI was shooting through light cloud, but it still shows the turbulent nature of this area of the Sun.

The Sun on July 27, 2024.

  This is a cropped image focusing on the spots visible on the disk today.

The Sun on July 24, 2024

  AR3762 continues to h avethe potential to produce X-Class flares.