Flare has appeared on southern AR

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Flare has appeared on southern AR

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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!

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Re: Flare has appeared on southern AR

Post by 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 :hamster: :bow
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goes-x-ray-flux

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Re: Flare has appeared on southern AR

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Thanks Alexandra. :D

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
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Wonderful images!


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salvo lauricella wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 1:09 pm Wonderful images!
How kind. Thank you Salvo! :D

I still have much to learn about processing.


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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
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Nice images Rusted!


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