150 Days of Sun: Growing Activity

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150 Days of Sun: Growing Activity

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150 Days of Sun: Growing Activity

I imaged the sun for 150 days in a row, from 25th December 2020 to 23rd May 2021. This image shows a side-by-side comparison among all the sunspot regions that had appeared in the three phases (each of 50 days) during this period. The left image shows the sunspot regions that appeared between 25th December 2020 to 12th February 2021, the centre image showing sunspots between 13th February 2021 to 3rd April 2021 and the image on the right captures the sunspots between 4th April 2021 to 23rd May 2021.

The growing number of sunspots in the images from left to right clearly shows the growing activity in the solar disk and this an indication that the Solar Cycle 25 is gaining momentum.

Gear: Nikon D5600, Sigma 150-600c, Thousand Oaks Solar Filter (white-light)

Processing: PIPP, Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop

Date: 25th December 2020 to 23rd May 2021

Location: Kolkata, India

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Re: 150 Days of Sun: Growing Activity

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150 days!

Wow I'm lucky if I get 2 days in a row and more than a handful a month!


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Alto wrote: Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:00 pm 150 days!

Wow I'm lucky if I get 2 days in a row and more than a handful a month!
Sorry to hear about that Geoff. In my case, there has been a number of days when the sun would appear only for a minute in the whole day and I had to wait for hours to get an image.


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That's a really interesting presentation. First the south dominates, then the north, now both are in action.

:hamster: :bow

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Excellent presentation!


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That’s impressive!
I envy your access to so many hours of sunlight.
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Thanks a lot for sharing this very informative, very well presenred and very beautiful work!
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Great record of activity, thank you. Nobody else is doing this...

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Montana wrote: Fri Jun 04, 2021 6:12 pm That's a really interesting presentation. First the south dominates, then the north, now both are in action.

:hamster: :bow

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Thank you Alexandra!


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marktownley wrote: Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:39 pm Excellent presentation!
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p_zetner wrote: Fri Jun 04, 2021 8:40 pm That’s impressive!
I envy your access to so many hours of sunlight.
Cheers.
Peter
Thank you Peter! We have had a really long run for the sun here. With the monsoon approaching, this will soon end.


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H-Alpha wrote: Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:54 pm Thanks a lot for sharing this very informative, very well presenred and very beautiful work!
Best wishes,
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Thanks a lot Alexandros!!


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ffellah wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:06 am Great record of activity, thank you. Nobody else is doing this...

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Thank you Franco! I really hope I can continue this..


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