Coronado SolarMax II 60 DS. 16x and 21.5x ( Ha )
Today poor seeing caused me to really have to work at it to see details. Everything was really soft. The only two things I could see fairly easily on the disc is the plage to AR12782 now entering the SW quadrant and a broken open-looped filament in the NE. Closer and more deliberant observations revealed more details. A new disturbance in the SE and two filaments SE of AR12782. I was also able with difficulty to pick up a filament NW of the new disturbance. Also another NW of AR12782 associated with a weak disturbance located there. I could not see the disturbance today. I can also see a small filament in the NW.
Surprisingly the prominences are not that hard to see, even in doublestack. Three decent ones in the NE with the northernmost one near the half-broken open loop filament. I can actually see two tiny proms above it! The fourth is a hedgerow below the emerging disturbance. GONG Cerro Tololo shows a couple of other small fainter ones elsewhere around the disc but I cannot see them.
The mottles are really soft today but visible covering the solar disc.
Orion 70mm Solar Telescope. 27.5x and 41.5x ( WL )
I can see a single spot and the faculae which corresponds to the disturbance seen in the SE in Ha. I can only barely see the dark spot in the middle that marks the umbra. SDO shows a light-bridged umbra. Seeing will not permit higher magnifications which would show it. I see no other details on the white-light disc. The granulation is rendered invisible by the seeing.
Carpe Diem!
James
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I'm glad you are feeling better now though, sorry to hear you were sick 
