Solar Imaging Session - February 6, 2013 ( Bright Flare in AR11667 Sunspot Group!!!)

The sky this morning is slightly hazy and seeing condition is fair. What caught my attention this morning is for me to be able to observe a nice bright flare eruption on AR11667 Sunspot Group which produces an inky-dark plume of plasma spiralling away from the explosion! It was a joy to monitor it as well as image the event. AR11667 Sunspot Group was silent for the past few days and the outburst this morning is a welcome treat for me :) Based on spaceweather.com " The magnetic canopy of decaying sunspot AR1667 erupted this morning (Feb. 6th @ 00:21 UT), producing a long duration C9-class solar flare and hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. According to first-look images from NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft, the CME appears to be heading in the general direction of Earth. If so, the likely time of arrival would be Feb. 8-9. " Several huge long dark filament are visible in between AR11667 and AR11665 Sunspot Groups. Large prominences are also visible in the SE, SW and NW limb that are worth observing. I was able to image both AR11667 and AR11665 Sunspot Group at high resolution in white light wavelength. A nice observing and imaging session this morning for me!!!