Due to having a busy day planned and also due to the anticipated poor seeing and very cold weather I chose to do only white light today. 25x gave the best view in the horrible seeing with 41.5x barely improving the view in moments of slightly better seeing.
Orion 70mm Solar Telescope. 25x and 41.5x ( WL )
I can see five active regions on the WL photosphere today. Three numbered ones in the northern hemisphere and two numbered ones in the southern hemisphere. ( KSO )
AR13173 shows itself in the far NE as a spot with a barely visible patch of faculae to it's east. Just east of the CLM in the NE quadrant AR13171 shows a sizeable spot, however even with it's size I can only barely see that it displays umbra-penumbra structure. The seeing is that bad and before my observations began I allowed 30min for my scope to equalize to the cold weather! Across the CLM into the NW quadrant I can easily see two spots associated with AR13169. I can see the umbra-penumbra form in the larger lead spot with difficulty but not at all in the following spot. During moments of slightly better seeing I can barely see a couple of larger pores east of the trailing spot.
AR13168 is visible as a small spot in the SW quadrant. I can barely make out faculae west of the spot. The SE quadrant shows only a small spot belonging to AR13172.
The attached GONG WLAI image gives a better view than I could see.
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
James
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