Solar Imaging Session - November 10, 2012

The sky this morning is clear but seeing is bad. A nice group of sunspots designated AR11611 and AR11612 are a joy to look at in white light and Ha wavelength. AR11610 Sunspot Group is starting to be active as well. Several nice large prominences can also be seen on the Sun's limb.

Solar Imaging Session - November 8, 2012 (Huge SE Hedgerow Prominence & Twisting Dark Filament !!!)

The sky this morning is cloudy again so I have plans to forgo this morning solar imaging session. But at around 8:30am, the Sun started to peeked out from the clouds and I decided to quickly setup once again to check out if the huge ejected prominence in the SW limb is still visible or not. Unfortunately, it is already gone and only a small remnant of the huge prominence can still be seen. But the SE limb has a huge hedgerow prominence as well as the huge twisting dark filament that was visible the since the other day add spice to this morning imaging session. I could also see a new possible AR11609 Sunspot Group that is emerging from the eastern limb.

Solar Imaging Session - November 7, 2012 (Cloudy Sky with Huge Ejected Prominence)

The sky this morning was cloudy and I had a hard time getting a clear shot of the Sun :( But I got a small maybe less than 5 minutes of window for me to get my only shot of the huge ejected prominence I imaged yesterday which is still visible but has tone down a bit but still nice to look at despite passing clouds lowering the resolution of the image a bit. But I'm not complaining :) I hope it is still there tomorrow.......

Solar Imaging Session - November 6, 2012 (Huge SW Ejected Prominence !!!)

The sky this morning is fair and seeing condition is also good. KC and I observe this morning together through the Coronado PST-Ha and saw a huge Ejected Prominence in the SW limb!!! It was a session as my son is starting to appreciate also the Sun :) Anyway, this huge SW ejected prominence together with the SE Huge Twisting Dark Filament spiced up a rather quiet Sun this morning!

Lunar Imaging Session - November 4, 2012

After I was returning to home from SM Mall of Asia after letting my son KC ride bicycle there, I saw the waning gibbous Moon rising low from the eastern horizon, I decided to image with it my Canon EOS 500D DSLR with EF100-400mm IS L lens on sturdy tripod from the hood of my car along the road. But unfortunately, clouds suddenly covered the Moon as fast as I setup my camera. Feeling bad about it as I missed the Moon so much, I proceeded to return home and after going up to my room, I decided to take another peek at the Moon and finally saw it still low from the horizon but I have a small window of opportunity to image it before I get obstructed by our roof, I fire a few shot and got what I needed with my portable lunar image setup :)

Solar Imaging Session - November 4, 2012

The sky this morning is clear but seeing condition is poor. With AR11598 Sunspot Group going to exit the SW limb, the Sun is becoming quiet again but there are still several small sunspot groups for us to observe and image but they are mostly inconspicous in appearance. But in Ha wavelength, at least several large hedgerow prominences are visible on the SE and SW limb to spiced up the Sun today.

Solar Imaging Session - November 2, 2012 (Huge Prominences Galore !!!)

Once again, I wake up late due to tiredness so I had to frantically jump out of the bed to quickly setup my solar imaging setup asap! Seeing condition is good and not much clouds present. The SW huge eruptive prominence that was visible yesterday is almost gone with small traces of small prominences left out of its original size. The SE eruptive prominence has grown a bit in width and shows a beautiful hedgerow appearance today :) AR11599 Sunspot Group is about to exit the SW limb with AR11598 Sunspot Group trailing not far behind :0 2 new possible sunspot groups which might possibly be designated AR11604 and AR11605 Sunspot Groups can be seen near the NE limb. Also very interesting to monitor are a group of tall projection prominences that are visible near the NW limb. :) I was also able to get a shot of AR11598 Sunspot Group before I got obstructed by our darn roof! Sigh! :( No full disk solar image was taken because of the obstruction issue :(

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