Sun Today: 2021-08-26
Proms, plage, and filaments make it rather interesting today.
I pulled an all nighter last night with my other scope, so I decided to swap it out for the SolarMax when the sun popped up above the horizon this morning. The seeing wasn't the best by then, though. And I don't usually shoot when the sun is low on the horizon. Whatever the reason, I had a problem getting a nice uniform disk. Still, the disk sort of looks interesting so I decided to upload the shot anyway.
Looks like someone has been scrawling graffiti all over the surface.
UPDATE: According to Spaceweather.com, the large sunspot (AR2859) you see there in the upper left quadrant erupted on August 26th ... the day I took this shot ... to produce a C3-Class flare and that flare caused a massive "solar tsunami". As a result a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) will impact the earth during the late hours of August 29th. Read about it here: www.spaceweather.com/
Sun Today: 2021-08-26
Proms, plage, and filaments make it rather interesting today.
I pulled an all nighter last night with my other scope, so I decided to swap it out for the SolarMax when the sun popped up above the horizon this morning. The seeing wasn't the best by then, though. And I don't usually shoot when the sun is low on the horizon. Whatever the reason, I had a problem getting a nice uniform disk. Still, the disk sort of looks interesting so I decided to upload the shot anyway.
Looks like someone has been scrawling graffiti all over the surface.
UPDATE: According to Spaceweather.com, the large sunspot (AR2859) you see there in the upper left quadrant erupted on August 26th ... the day I took this shot ... to produce a C3-Class flare and that flare caused a massive "solar tsunami". As a result a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) will impact the earth during the late hours of August 29th. Read about it here: www.spaceweather.com/