Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Solar Imaging Session - October 5, 2011 (8 Sunspot Groups & Numerous Eruptive Prominences & Dark Filaments !)

The sky this morning is partly cloudy and seeing condition is bad! Amid the circumstances, I still proceeded to observe and image the Sun. With AR11302 Sunspot Group almost exiting the western limb, only AR11305, AR11309 and AR11312 are the bigger groups that is visible on the Sun's surface today. A total of 8 sunspot groups are visible. Newcomer AR11312 Sunspot Group is entering from the NE limb and looks promising so I'm guessing this week won't be boring after all with the exit of AR11302 :)

In Ha wavelength the major sunspot groups are showing signs of solar activities inside their cores. Numerous dark filaments are scattered along the solar disk while several large eruptive prominences are visible in the NE and SE limb.










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