Solar Section

February 7, 2010

AR1045 is starting to come alive

The new sunspot group AR1045 is starting to grow quickly. Yesterday Feb 6 at 18:59 UTC, the spot erupted with a M2.97 solar flare. Later on Feb 7 at 2:34 UTC the same spot erupted with a M6.4 solar flare. This area is becoming quite active. These Solar flare reports were issued by Solar Terrestrial Dispatch

AR1043 and AR1044 are exiting off the western limb, yet yesterday I could not see the spots in white light, but they did show up on h-Alpha on my SM60.

Kim

February 2, 2010

CR2092 Compilation by Howard Eskildsen

Here is the Carrington Rotation CR2092 by Howard Eskildsen

Sun taken in CaK - Jan 3, 2010 at 11:46 UT to January 30, 2010 at 19:56 UT

January 10, 2010

Solar Prominences

Micheal Buxton has created a loop of a Solar Prominence from October 3th, 2009

Details on the equipment used are :”This time lapse movie was captured from 1710-1855 UT on 3 october 2009 with a tak TSA 102 and a lunt 75mm hydrogen filter. video clips of 350 frames were gathered with a DMK ccd and processed with registax. the clip is looped 5 times and played here at 20fps. “mb

Go to to see Mike’s other events on the Youtube page.

Thanks for sharing Mike.

Kim

January 2, 2010

Happy New Year Everyone!

As the clouds are slowly departing from Ontario Canada, we might actually see the sun. I can see from NOAA and Spaceweather there is still a sunspot AR11039 appearing in the lower southern hemisphere.

As this Solar Cycle 24 starts to come alive, lets hope for clear observing conditions.

I also urge you all to send in your solar observations to the Solar ALPO Coordinator at Kim.Hay@alpo-astronomy.org so these can be archived for use by researchers and amateur solar observers.

Please include the time in UT Time, orientation of North at the top (for images) type of equipment used, location. Please see the page on ALPO Report forms . Remember to join the ALPO Solar Email group on Yahoo.

Kim Hay
ALPO Solar Coordinator

April 22, 2009

Welcome to the Solar Blog

Each ALPO section now has access to a “blog” and an image gallery. The blog can be used by any coordinator or section associate to post special alerts and images. The gallery is also available for posting and archiving section images.

There are many advantages to using these applications on our website, including the ability to search posts by category, content and the ability to perform keyword searches when looking for images. There is also an option that will automatically post to a Yahoo group whenever a post is logged to your blog. The blog also includes an events calendar. The best part is that you don’t have to wait for someone else to post your alerts. Posting an alert to the blog is just like creating a Word document. You simply type, cut and paste images and post – no web experience necessary.

Of course this is all optional. If you like the way things are now with your section, that’s fine. Please note that the gallery will be used for future image posts, if the webmaster is asked to post images for you.

If you need an account for your section, contact Larry Owens Larry.Owens@alpo-astronomy.org

Here’s a link to the gallery: https://alpo-astronomy.org/gallery

Thanks,

Larry Owens

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