Saturday, September 2, 2017

The Sun 9/02/17


Clear skies brought an opportunity to image a more active solar disk than we've seen in a while. The PST-DS/Mallincam DS2.3+ combination worked very well, producing some fine views of ARs 2674 and 2673 (the upper part to center of the disk) and AR2675 (the brighter area toward the bottom of the image) and AR2672 (the light area below and to the right of AR2675. AR2674 is growing rapidly and has the potential to release class M flares, which would be earth-directed, due to its position on the sun.

AR2674 and AR2673 Detail
Some prominences were visible on the lower limb of the sun (as observed)--a nice bonus!


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