It was partly cloudy today. Okay, mostly cloudy and hot too. Nonetheless, I managed to capture some usable frames of the solar disk between clouds. I also got to experiment with the timelapse feature of the image capture software – ASICap. Okay, I didn’t actually create a worthwhile timelapse movie, but I learned a few things. Maybe I can do one in the future and highlight a coronal mass ejection or something else that requires a movie over several hours.
Here’s this evening’s solar disk image from the best 100 of 300+ AVI frames. There was a big solar flare today from the area around AR3784 (the sunspot near the center of the solar disk).
The North and South poles were quiet today. The main prominence activity was on the sun’s eastern and western limbs. They are shown below.
