Sun in HAlpha With Lunt LS100THa Uploaded 11/26/20 Daily Report For Wednesday, November 26, 2020
Images below are 1290 wide and non clickable
We are starting to just come out of solar minimum! A few larger sunspots on the disk today one was flaring as soon as I set the telescope on it. It lasted only 5 minutes then faded out.
Halpha:
Lets start with the full disk, a beautiful flaring sunspot to the left, and a smaller companion spot to its left. On the right a lone spot that did not produce any increasing activity since it appeared a week ago.
Now lets put in the 3x Klee barlow, yeilding 6x magnification over the 0.5x full disk shot above. The spot is still flaring but is fading very fast. Such events last only minutes and it is sheer luck to capture one in action!
The smaller spot on the right side (going off the disk) has no interesting details other than its magnetic disturbance of the surrounding area.
About 10 minutes later, we returned to the main spot to see no trace of the flare!
A shot of the same spot in the Red Wing of Halpha to look for Ellerman bombs. Few were seen here. Red wing is detuned from Halpha about 0.75 Angstroms toward the red to show such stuctures more clearly.
