May 25 2023 Observations.

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May 25 2023 Observations.

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My session time is from 15:00 until 16:00 UTC. The skies are a milky blue-white with some lower clouds scattered about. The seeing is above average, figure that because I didn't image! The temperature is 70F ( 21.1C ). Breezy.

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Coronado SolarMax II 60. SS & DS. 16x, 25x and 33x. ( 656.28nm )
I can see eight active regions in the Ha chromosphere today. Four in the northern hemisphere with three being labeled on the KSO images. Four are also seen in the southern hemisphere with also three showing labels on the KSO images.

An easy unlabeled plage can be seen in the NE quadrant, just above the equator. Well NW of it lies a large very easy filament. This looks like one that could lift off at any time! AR13313 is seen as a spot among faint plage just east of the CLM. West of the CLM, AR13311 and AR13314 are seen as spots among faint plage.

The SW quadrant shows the spot of AR13110 with faint plage scattered to it's east. A spot of plage is seen ESE of AR1330. This is associated with AR13312. It's showing the afterglow of a flare whose peak was M1.19 which I missed by 14 minutes! I notice several filaments in the vicinity. AR13315 is seen as two spots bridged by easy plage. An unnumbered plage is seen near the eastern limb, just below the equator.

Three prominences are seen on the NW limb. I can see some vertical detail in them. The SE limb shows some nice proms. The southernmost one starts out the session with a distorted fan shape and morphs into a more hook-like shape as the session goes on.

The mottles are visible across the disc but all are softened by the high cloudiness present.


Orion 70mm Solar Telescope. 25x, 50x, 62.5x and 100x. ( WLC )
Eight active regions are visible on the continuum photosphere today. Four in the northern hemisphere with three bearing labels on the KSO images. Four are visible in the southern hemisphere with three showing labels on the KSO images.

The NE quadrant shows with a close look at 50x and 62.5x, four small pores wrapped in faint faculae. 100x reveals a tiny fifth one. The SDO HMIc 4K images reveal two very tiny additional pores just to the east of the others. This makes seven in all. This tiny asterism of pores in located just above the equator in the far NE quad. Ha shows a plage there which I could see in the SMII60. AR13313-11-14 are a line of spots and pores beginning just east of the CLM stretching ESE into the NW quadrant. Visually this region appears as four! Exactly which spots belong to AR13313 and AR13311 is a bit unclear to me. The line starts off as a single structured spot ( AR13313 ) followed by a group of four irregular structured spots. Do these belong to AR13313 or AR13311? I think the former. I can actually see the tiny light bridge in the NW side of the umbra of the largest spot of the four at 100x. A cluster of penumbrated pores follows these spots to the WSW. These belong to AR13311. A structured spot with a fat comma-shaped umbra with some pores to the SE makes up AR13314.

AR13310 in the SW quadrant shows itself as a big spot with a large dark umbra. I see no light bridges within it. The penumbra is easily seen to be mottled. Penumbrated pores are seen to it's north and west. AR13312 is seen as a Sagitta-shaped arrow of pores ESE pf AR13310. The central large dark pore is easy but I cannot resolve clearly the cloud of pores at the eastern tip of the arrow. The fletching to the west I can see as a vertical diffuse penumbra-like line. A lone pore lies just west, close by. I need a bigger scope for this group! AR13315 is quite a pretty sight in the Orion70. It's seen as a dipole group of two spots with pores scattered between them. The western spot is oval and looks like a cluster of small spots and pores sharing a common penumbra. The penumbra is seen to be mottled with some light areas within it. The western spot looks like the western side of the penumbra has been blown off with debris scattered west! I can see two, maybe three, light bridges within the western spot's umbra at 62.5x and 100x. An easy unlabeled patch of faculae is seen just below the equator near the eastern limb.

The fine granulation texturing of the photosphere is easily seen, despite the high hazy cloudiness. Maybe I found a thin spot!!


Carpe Lumen!


James



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Re: May 25 2023 Observations.

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Nice report thanks James. I''m just about to go and get a in a quick WL view this morning before work.


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Re: May 25 2023 Observations.

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marktownley wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 5:05 am Nice report thanks James. I''m just about to go and get a in a quick WL view this morning before work.

Using the SUNoculars I guess. Have a good workday and remember, it's Friday!

Good morning to you and it's bedtime for me. Goodnight my modding friend.

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Re: May 25 2023 Observations.

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Hiya James.

On this occasion not the sunoculars. I cobbled together a small upgrade to the sunoculars in the form of this:

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It is my 50mm Stellavue Night Hawk finderscope, front aperture solar film, Pentax zoom ep on the tripod from the az gti and a manfrotto head I have lying around.

It gives a steadier more detailed view than the sunoculars, and the idea is a for a really easy grab and go. The spots are real easy, and the zoom allows me to get as close as the seeing allows (within aperture contraints).

In true fashion i'm already wondering about using the 430nm filter with it to pull a bit more resolution.

Sleep well, happy friday and have a great weekend too!

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Re: May 25 2023 Observations.

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Mark!
What a nice little grab and go little setup. That’s certainly a gain on the little Lunt binos. Filters like the 540 and 430 also have another advantage. They remove the chromatic aberration from the image. Give us a visual report sometime so I can see how it does.

That’s a huge eyepiece for such a little scope. I bet it’s ass heavy! :lol: My TeleVue 6mm Delos is quite big for my little Orion70 too!

James


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