Category: Sun

Whist waiting for the Moon to rise on the 13th July 2022 members Honor Wheeler and Jim Burchell photographed the Sun as it set with just their cameras.  When they looked at their images they saw that they had captured some of the massive sunspots on the Sun that day too in their photos.  In both images you can see sunspot AR3055 bottom middle right and sunspot AR3057 top left on the Sun.  In Honor's image you can also see Sunspot AR3053 middle right too.

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Honor Wheeler's image

Jim Burchell's image

Member Simon Dawes imaged our Sun on the morning of the 11th July 2022 and as you can see the Sun is very active.  Details of how Simon acquired the images are on the photos.

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Sunspot AR3053

Sunspot AR3055 - stretching more than 100,000 km from end to end with more than a dozen dark cores.  Simon said 'AR3055 its seems to be getting longer as I couldn't get it in the frame so had to do a composite.'

Sunspot AR3056

New Sunspot - this new active region was just peeping round the limb of the Sun on the 11th July. Now Sunspot AR3057

Member Simon Dawes captured some superb images of the Sun this morning. The Sun is quite active at the moment with several sunspots.

Details of how Simon took the images are on the photos.

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The Sun on the 14th May 2022 taken by member & trustee Simon Dawes. 

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Two more great images of our Sun on the 8th & 9th May 2022 by Simon Dawes and now up to Sunspot number AR3007.  

Sunspot AR3006 however is behaving a bit odd as described on Spaceweather.com  ''A MIXED-UP SUNSPOT: Sunspot AR3006 is having an identity crisis. It is supposed to have a +/- magnetic field. Mostly it does. But deep inside the sunspot's primary core, the polarity is opposite: -/+................The mixture of magnetic polarities makes this sunspot interesting and dangerous. When opposite polarities bump together, it can light the fuse of magnetic reconnection--the explosive power source of solar flares. If AR3006 flares today, it will be geoeffective. The sunspot is directly facing Earth.''

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The Sun 8th May 2022

The Sun 9th May 2022

The latest image of the Sun taken by Simon Dawes. 

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The Sun on the 30th April 2022 taken by Simon Dawes.  As you can see the Sun was still 'active' re sunspots on that day.

As of today (5th May) we are now up to AR3006 and in the past 24 hours sunspot AR3004 has produced over 18 solar flares (15+ C-class flares and 3 M-flares). 

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The Sun on the 30th April 2022

Superb close up of Sunspots AR2993 & AR2994 captured by member Kevin Langford on the 24th April 2022 using ASI385mc, SW 130 Reflector on a SW Adventure tracker mount. Using SharpCap, Autostakkert 2 and PS.

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