Solar Imaging Session - January 5, 2012 (Huge NE Eruptive Prominence !!!)

The sky this morning is very hazy and seeing condition is also not very good. But I still proceeded to monitor the Sun nevertheless and got to see a huge eruptive prominence in the NE limb near AR11391 Sunspot Group! Amid the poor seeing, the prominence still stands out well than I expected. It surprised me this morning amid my expectation of a quiet Sun today. This just let us know that the Sun is a very dynamic object that can give us a lot of surprises when monitored on a regular basis! New AR11392 Sunspot Group contains small pores only while the quiet AR11390 eventually started to get active today as it nears the western limb. AR11389 continues to show some small solar activity inside its core while AR11388 Sunspot Group is quiet and low in solar activity.

An white light wavelength, AR11391 Sunspot Group now is the group to monitor as it grows a little larger now while AR11389 Sunspot Group continues to decay more and almost lost all its bigger umbral cores except for the main core which still shows nice structure. AR11388 Sunspot Group continues to be quiet in solar activity.