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Re: May Solar Challenge

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I fixed it for you Andy :) if you press edit on your post you can see what I did :)

That is a very unusual one as the ejection is very bright, usually ejections are dark. That is a real monster!!

:bow :hamster:

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Alexandra is right, usually they are dark but I have seen these bright little " proms " inward of the limb being brighter than the disc on a couple of other occasions. I wish I could find the session reports on them. I usually cannot see them well with the 60 but the 90 does well on them.

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Re: May Solar Challenge

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Another crackling solar flare from Andy Devey

Here is a long look at the AR3017-AR3014 complex showing lots of flaring from today including an M5.6 and an M1.5 event with other C-class events. Sequence runs from 07:37 to 12:05UT.

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WoW, it looks like lightning flashes in distant thunderstorms which isn't far from the truth. Just on a billions more powerful scale!

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Montana wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 3:40 pmHere is a long look at the AR3017-AR3014 complex showing lots of flaring from today including an M5.6 and an M1.5 event with other C-class events. Sequence runs from 07:37 to 12:05UT.
I think this is one of the best things I've ever seeing on solar "images".
A lot of patience.


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C4.7 flare in AR 3014 from 2022-05-18 (20-s intervals, 0:24 h total):

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There really are some great animations and images here :bow :bow :bow

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GreatAttractor wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 8:52 am C4.7 flare in AR 3014 from 2022-05-18 (20-s intervals, 0:24 h total):

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That's an excellent animation! I saw this one visually but not near in as much detail as shown here.

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Some really good flare captures here. I got lucky last weekend with AR3011 rounding the limb and some fine seeing.
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Nice flare animation, Christopher. Flares it seems now have become a daily phenomenon.


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Absolutely wonderful flare captures :hamster:

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WoW. Nice prom!!


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Hi,

I was lucky and the timing was right and I caught the M1.34 flare in region 3016.

It started at UTC 18.11 with c1.04 and reached maximum at 18:24 and ended at 18.43 but I stopped recording at 19:22

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Nice work Rainer. I got the alert for it but I was completely under clouds and couldn’t see the sun at all. It was pushing worktime anyway.

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Wow!! that is a double lightning looking flare :bow :hamster: it is a pity you have to log in to Vimeo to see it, is there any way to make it public?

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ALEXANDRA, THIS "MAY SOLAR CHALLENGE" ITEM, CERTAINLY HAD SHOWN SOME EXCELLENT CAPTURES AND ANIMATIONS...

I AM LIMITED TO BEING ABLE TO REPLY TO SO MANY INDIVIDUALLY, BUT I WONDER IF PERHAPS AS CYCLE #25 HEATS-UP MORE,
THAT PERHAPS TO REPEAT THIS SUBJECT IN ANOTHER "SOLAR CHALLENGE" SOON, WOULD PRODUCE MORE FABULOUS CAPTURES...

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Montana wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 6:00 am Wow!! that is a double lightning looking flare :bow :hamster: it is a pity you have to log in to Vimeo to see it, is there any way to make it public?

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Hi Alexandra,

Sorry. Can you watch it now without logging into Vimeo ?

BTW there is a setting in phpBB which shows the videos of Youtube and Vimeo in the message itself. In my Astronomy forum Astroforo.net I just put the Vimeo or Youtube link in my message and then automatically it is shown like you can see here

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Yep! it works now Rainer :hamster:

Youtube yes, if you go into full editor click on the Youtube button and insert the link between the two icons. This doesn't work for Vimeo as I have tried in the past. I will ask Stephen if he can do another for Vimeo.

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Hi Alexandra,

Good to hear. BTW, as I wrote, in my forum you just copy the Youtube or Vimeo link into the message and when sending it automatically the video window appears. I do not need to add any BBcode or whatever ...

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May 22nd. A lot of solar flares in the northern hemisphere around AR 3014 and 3017. Single exposure with Canon 550d attached to Lunt 100 Ha scope (SS). Cheers John W.
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Nice view John.


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