A lot has changed on the sun’s disk since my last solar photoshoot. Today was clear and the temperature was fine; however, the incoming edge of Winter Storm Blair will make for freezing temperatures tonight.
Below is the H-alpha view of the sun. This image appears somewhat washed out because I deliberately tuned the filters to bring out the prominences. Sometimes it seems that everything about this hobby is a compromise.
The next image highlights the active regions which are annotated. Several that were featured in my previous solar posts have disappeared and new regions have been added. I think this is the most sunspot activity I have to date.
Two sunspot groups that appear in the upper mid region on NASA’s images are too faint to see in mine. NASA has nicer toys than I do.
The prominences along the sun’s North pole are emphasized in the two images below.
Those along the sun’s South pole are shown below. Those along the SE limb are arches whereas the SW limb shows a tall, bright eruption of sun stuff and very subtle arches just above the caption in that frame.
