Flare has appeared on southern AR

[Rusted]

Gales from the west becoming increasingly difficult in the dome as it turns to south.
Seeing improving as lunch arrives and cloud clears.
A flare has suddenly appeared to the north of disturbed area!

160mm D-ERF, iStar 150/10 H-a, Beloptik KG3 Baader 35nm H-a, PST mod with Maier ITF, ZWO ASI 174MM.
3k frames at 320fps in 9 seconds, 0.8ms, 800x600 and 640x480. SharpCap 3.2, iMPPG, PhotoFiltre7.

sun ar 11.3.2020 12.00 imppg pf7 rsz.jpg (60.8 KiB) Viewed 7321 times

sun ar 11.3.2020 12.46 imppg pf7 rsz.jpg (65.48 KiB) Viewed 7321 times

[Montana]

Fantastic images Rusted, I looked this one up and it managed to splutter a A class flare at 11:50 UTC well caught though
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goes-x-ray-flux

Alexandra

[Rusted]

Thanks Alexandra.

I'm quite pleased with progress with the new iStar f/10 H-a, OTA with full aperture D-ERF.
It's the only instrument on my big DIY GE mounting now. So it doesn't catch the wind like it did.

I was capturing images at five to ten minute intervals once the cloud finally cleared.
I capture, process and then post on my blog.
The time taken to process and post the final image dictates the capture intervals.

Only the last image before lunch showed the flare. Image capture times are all CET.
The flare capture is at 12:46 CET. The previous 12:35 CET shows no sign of a flare.

sun ar 11.3.2020 12.35 imppg pf7 rsz.jpg (66.9 KiB) Viewed 7301 times

[salvo lauricella]

Wonderful images!

[Rusted]

Wonderful images!

How kind. Thank you Salvo!

I still have much to learn about processing.

[Rusted]

At 15:03 [CET] the flare had folded itself into a tiny U-shape at its south eastern extremity.
The seeing has gone off over lunch.

sun ar 11.3.2020 14.53 imppg pf7.jpg (57.7 KiB) Viewed 7290 times

sun ar 11.3.2020 15.03 imppg pf7 rsz.jpg (64.67 KiB) Viewed 7290 times

[Starry Jack]

Nice gold color as well.

[Rusted]

Nice gold color as well.

Thanks. I'm glad you approve.

[DeepSolar64]

Nice on catching a flare!

I think I caught a small one last October when there was a small spot group on the disk. It was a small bright place that appeared and then vanished over just a few minutes.

James

[Astrophil]

Really nice. Timing is everything!

Phil

[MapleRidge]

Very fortunate to catch that flare...well done

Brian

[Rusted]

Thank you all. I'm glad my efforts were appreciated. [Despite my awful processing]

[ffellah]

Really nice images, Rusted

Franco

[Carbon60]

Nice work, Rusted.

Stu.

[marktownley]

Good captures Rusted!