It’s been a few days since I last posted my solar observations; the sky has been overcast and we were graced with a spoonful or two of rain. Today was partly cloudy, but there were enough breaks in the clouds to make a few videos.
I have borrowed an idea from the Earth & Sky website and decided to make at least two images of the solar disk for my posts – one with the instrument tuned to show sunspots well, and the other with tuning to optimize the prominences. Below is the sunspot view.
Below is the view optimized for prominences, plages, and filaments.
I tinkered with the placement of the camera the past few days, and my tinkering changed the orientation of the camera so that the sun’s image appears rotated about 30-degrees counterclockwise. Sigh. I will correct it for tomorrow’s images.
The major sunspot groups appear below.
The prominences on the western limb (right edge) are the delicate arcades shown below.
