Wednesday Sunshine 3rd July

[marktownley]

I'm on a roll here, a good few days in a row! Today I decided to stack the SM90 with my LS50 etalon for a double stack view to make any cycle 25 bright points easier to see. Glad I did, as the area that was designated S6205 in the southern hemisphere seems to have a couple more smaller bright points trailing it. Also surprised me how much area the plage at the equator is covering. Camera was the GH3 ICX916M

Ha-fd-ds-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Ha-fd-ds-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Next I double stacked with the Quark on the SM90 for a closer view of the regions of interest.

Up in norther polar regions a filament associated with cycle 25 jetstreams was easy to see:

north-fila-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

north-fila-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Dropping down to the equator and back into cycle 24 the plage from aprils active regions is still clearly visible and quite extensive:

plage-and-fila-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

plage-and-fila-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Going further south, S6205 has diminished in size and activity and now is undesignated on solen. Just about caught the prom which I didn't notice until I was processing:

s6205-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

s6205-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

And all the way at the south pole, the brighter points of polar facualae were just about visible:

south-polar-faculae-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

south-polar-faculae-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

And finally, got this cheeky animation of these folk heading towards London Heathrow...

ani-800 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Looks like tomorrow morning will be clear, so will be checking out what has changed then...

Hope you like!

Mark

[Starry Jack]

I love that solar transit!!!

[Astrophil]

Very nice images, Mark. I like the processing. Keep 'em coming.

Phil

[pedro]

Great stuff Mark

I will try to image the bright points in the next couple of days

[marktownley]

Thanks guys!

The bright point are there, definitely grab some images.

I should go to bed now, I have to be up and observing the sun in 6 hours

[Montana]

I really am enjoying your daily news update terrific images when blown up to full size and what a great transit, they always make you smile

Alexandra

[Carbon60]

A nice, detailed, report, Mark. Excellent work.

Stu.

[MapleRidge]

Another excellent session Mark and great to highlight the features of both cycles visible

Brian

[MAURITS]

Excellent Mark.