December 1 2022 Observations. New ARs in the East!!

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December 1 2022 Observations. New ARs in the East!!

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My session time is from 16:10 until 17:10 UTC. The skies are clear with poor seeing. The temperature is 44F ( 6.6C )


Coronado SolarMax II 90 DS. 32x and 50x ( Ha )
The quietness is ending folks. I see eight active regions on the Ha solar disc today! I can see a spot near the NE limb which is associated with a new emerging active region. The spot takes a close look to see unless I tune off the center band. I can see some disturbances on the nearby limb in the form of small proms, not counting the unusual " insectoid " prom to it's NE. Just west of the new spot across a couple of filaments I see a small plage. Westward still but still in the NW quadrant I see another plage that is a bit larger and I also see some filaments north and SW of it. NW of this plage I can see another at the CLM. GONG CTIO shows three patches here but I cannot really see them. Only one is clear to me and the seeing makes that a bit difficult. AR13152 is seen in the NW quadrant and is seen as two plages. The larger western one has a filament emerging from it and curling NE. A small plage is seen near the western limb. That makes six regions in a belt crossing the northern hemisphere!

The southern hemisphere is not as active as the north in active regions but there is a large new one emerging from behind the SE limb! The southern hemisphere also has the largest and easiest visible filaments as compared to the northern hemisphere. A nice large thick dark filament is seen in the west just south of the equator. Further southeast lies two smaller but still easy filaments. The bright plage of AR13154 is visible at the CLM. The SE quadrant shows a really nice filament that somewhat resembles a knotty frayed rope. NE of this filament lies a new active region emerging from the limb. It's labeled on SWL as AR13153.

The limb shows numerous prominences! A tall broken one is seen on the SE limb. Though not especially bright it's not difficult to see in double-stack. The NE quadrant shows a really interesting and unusual prom. It first appears as a floating prom but during moments of relatively better seeing I can see that it is barely attached to the disc. It looks like an insect nymph! A dark vertical band lies on the north side of the prom looking all like dark eyes. The " body " is broad. A banded tail trails south and looks like a segmented tail of an insect. And the prom sits on tiny legs though the seeing makes those hard to see visually. They show easily on the GONG CTIO image. This prominence is unusually beautiful. It's the " Insectoid Prom "!! Two more proms are seen well north of the insectoid. A group of five hedgerow proms are seen on the NW limb. Several other proms are seen on the SW limb with the southernmost of these being quite bright. One floats but is dim.

The mottles are visible but soft. The seeing wipes out the finest details.



Celestron NexStar 102GT w/Altair wedge and Baader 540nm filter. 50x. ( WL )
540nm continuum is being affected by the seeing even worse than 656.28nm Ha is but still I can see seven active disturbances on the 540nm photosphere. An emerging spot is seen very close to the NE limb among faculae. It looks sizeable but the seeing blurs any detail that I would have any chance of seeing within it. SDO HMI shows it's structured. Three pores are seen well west of this emerging group. They are difficult. SDOHMIc shows faint faculae well NE of this tiny group and NW of the emerging region but I cannot see it, probably due to the seeing. AR13152 is seen as a single small spot in the NW quadrant. SDO shows smaller pores nearby and to the SW but I cannot see them. I can see a band of faculae near the limb and SDO HMI shows a tiny pore there.

Faint faculae can just be made out near the SW limb. I can see two spots that are associated with AR13154 on the Central Longitudinal Meridian. SDO shows a few more pores that I cannot see. The new emerging active region near the SE limb now labeled as AR13153 on the SDO SWL image shows two spots. One is quite large. Despite the seeing I can see a tapered umbra with the darkest bit being south. A penumbra can be seen. I can also glimpse possible structure in the second spot. Some faculae can be seen surrounding them.

The fine granulation of the disc is totally invisible today.


Carpe Diem!


James



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Re: December 1 2022 Observations. New ARs in the East!!

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Glad you got a view in James, an hour well spent! The new active region looks to be a decent size.


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marktownley wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:04 pm Glad you got a view in James, an hour well spent! The new active region looks to be a decent size.
There’s actually two new ones. One in the NE and one in the SE.


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Aaron,
Observing from 53N has got to be a challenge. Your observing window is probably quite narrow.

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Great report James. I’ll hopefully be finishing up processing on an animation of that prom you described on the NE limb. Seeing wasn’t great but as I checked the scope every now and then I noticed some interesting changes like you described so I hope the animation is decent.


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Nice photos. I haven't seen a sky this blue in months.


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James:
Thanks for the report and images.
Have a sunny weekend.
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What a lovely blue sky and sounds like you had fun James :bow :hamster:
Aaron, I'm at 53 degrees N too but half a world apart :)

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Warren,
I await your animation. I could visually see what the GONG images show. To think about it the prom looks a bit like a wingless mosquito! Is it feeding on the Sun!? View the attached GONG image full size!

Alexandra,
It was fun. Cloudy today though but at least it is FRIDAY!!

James


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Thanks for the great report James.


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You are welcome, Maurits.


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