Solar Imaging Session - May 10, 2009

Hello:

Its been almost 2 weeks of bad weather, rain and storm and it was a surprise that it finally show some sunlight for me not to waste opportunity to try observing and imaging the Sun once again. Today's seeing is fair and I was able to see a nice eruptive prominence as well as several smaller prominences around the Sun's limb.

Unfortunately, I was only able to image the bigger prominence only bec clouds then covered up the sky before I could image them. :(

Solar Imaging Session - April 26, 2009

Hello:

I wake up this morning to see the sky a bit hazy but since the Sun had already shifted to the NE, I had to wait for around lunchtime to observe and image the Sun. Nevertheless, the seeing was surprising steady and I was also able to see a nice large loop prominence. Image can be viewed below:


Another smaller eruptive prominence can also be viewed below:

Solar Imaging Session - April 25, 2009

Hello:

Seeing this morning was not good but there was an interesting large eruptive prominence that can be faintly viewed amid the bad seeing. I still image it though and can be viewed below:


Aside from the large prominence, I was also able to image two more small groups of prominences that can be viewed below:

Solar Imaging Session - April 19, 2009

Hello:

The sky was very cloudy early this morning so virtualy impossible to even see the Sun :( But just before lunchtime, there are some breaks in the clouds that allowed me to image the Sun through the cloud openings.

The prominences today were boring except for one small detached eruptive prominence residual that can still be seen floating away from the solar limb from the image below:


The other small prominences that were visible in the solar limb were as follows:

Solar Imaging Session - April 18, 2009

Hello:

The seeing this morning was horrible! Although I could see two large eruptive prominences, the seeing really soften the view too much that one can only see the prominences in a ghostly way...... :(

Nevertheless, I still image them for posterity. Hoping tomorrow seeing will be greatly improve :0

Solar Imaging Session - April 17, 2009

Hello:

After arriving from my provincial trip and also had a small case of food poisoning from the food that I ate from the bus stop, I still put up some energy and determination to try observing and imaging the Sun this morning. Much to my surprise, the Sun was a bit active with several large eruptive prominences around the solar limb. Seeing was good this morning.

Nice tree-like structure eruptive prominences!

Whoa! Large Eruptive Prominence! One of the biggest one in months :0

Hmmm...... still nice moderate size eruptive prominences.

Solar Imaging Session - April 12, 2009

Hello:

Although the sky this morning was cloudy, I was able to get a small window for me to image the Sun. There are 2 nice eruptive prominences that are clearly visible even at the eyepiece view of my PST. There is another much fainter prominence that I was able to see too but image details too faint to conceive. Nevertheless, I image both of them as well below: