SolarChat!

A clear sunny day and Spaceweather saying no sunspots, but I had a go at a full disk at about 9° altitude today and was surprised by the active area.
I also wanted to try to locate Mercury in daylight but it was hazy and I failed at that but did find Venus. In the process using the ED100 with ND5 astrosolar film to locate the sun as a start to finding Venus I noticed that the sunspot was actually quite complex and large in white light.
Robert

LS60DS
1205 05_Dec_18_105700_lapl4_ap576 by robertarnold, on Flickr

ED100 ND5
1205 05_Dec_18_124746_lapl4_ap521 by robertarnold, on Flickr

ED100
1205 venus-05_Dec_18_122304_lapl4_ap2 by robertarnold, on Flickr

Wow! Where did that AR come from?
I may have some clear sky, for the first time in ages, coming up in a couple of days. I hope to be able to catch this beauty
Nice work

I noticed in the SDO images that the sunspot appeared this morning (EST) out of nowhere...

Very nice images, Robert. I have hope for this weekend.

Franco

Great set of solar images Robert, and nice to see Venus as well

Brian

Absolute beauties Robert!!! You've been getting some nice weather up there I gather...

Fantastic
Paul

Nice images, Robert. Lovely Ha FD and Venus looks great. Well done.

Stu.

WOW!!!! what a little AR! and incredible image of Venus

Alexandra

nice images Robert

Thanks for looking and kind comments!
R