Step away from solar observation/photography for a brief vacation, and everything changes. It’s what makes solar astronomy so different from Deep Sky astrophotography. If you step away from the latter for a year and return to photograph this nebula or that galaxy, it’s as if nothing at all has changed.
Today’s H-alpha image shows lots of prominence activity with some forms of activity that I have not recorded before. There are prominences along the E, SE, SW, and NW solar limbs. Along the E limb, there is a tall plume of sun stuff being ejected into the corona. Along the W limb, there are delicate arcs reaching high above the chromosphere.
The sunspot image shows eight active regions today. A ninth is just coming into view on the eastern horizon.
The eastern prominences are shown below. Note the plume of solar material being ejected high above the chromosphere.
Along the western limb we have these prominences. The image on the left shows multiple arcs reaching high above the chromosphere.
