Unedited Solar Images from Jan 2012 onwards

[superiorstream]

Hi,All
Thanks Gary for the uploading.
The above series are photos of sunspot 1429,1430--one of the most interesting sunspot in the present series cycle 24.
1)This sunspot is responsible for at least 3 X-class flare and subsequently 'coincide' with at least 3 earthquakes ;including the mag-6+ in the sea near the capital of Japan.
2)We are lucky to witness the full process of growth to full power of the sunspot region starting around march 4th. and its associated active region.Notice how the 'white region' grow in size.
3)Notice how the white light profile---in 540nm---changes.It in fact TOTALLY change shape in white light after the x-class flare.Also,right from the start,c-class flare are evident from those photo around 4th march.
4)This sunspot also coincide with bad weather--hence no Cak images were recorded.;and good weather return after it turns to the non-earth facing side.However ,ever since its return after around April 3--now know as sunspot 1450,1452--,bad weather comes again with daily rain here in Singapore,and coincide with super bad instances of bad weather like flash flood in Malaysia,tonado in USA,Superstorm in Japan etc.As my future photo will show,even though the white light profile is insignificant,its Ha profile will actually show its true colour as a region of activities that stretch no less than 800,000km.Fantastic sunspot 1429,1430 or 1450,1452 with more pic to come.Will this region survive a second round?

[superiorstream]

Hi,All
Blank,spotless sun today-in white light;in Cak--filaments seen,prominences seen in Ha--and that marks the end of the 4th mini-cycle which lasted 8 mths.Sunspot 1450 rotated to the other side and 1452 turn spotless.Will be uploading sunspot 1450,1452 interesting photo soon.Also expecting minicycle 5 to start with a bang,active within 3 to 5 days the most and if trend uphold,will last another 8 mths till around December this year.

[Gary]

New batch of photos. Enjoy!

[superiorstream]

Hi,All
Again,THANKS Gary for the upload;also,note that I submit only those typical ones as I dont want to spam the site.Pls note the following
1)Sunspot 1450,1452 are actually sunspot 1429,1430 that again get rotated into view again after transversing the non- earth facing side.
2)As you can recall,1429,1430 are superactive spots with good show of x-class flare.This time round 1450 initially appears exhausted and show only two small dot followed by a medium size filament.However after 2 days,activities pick up--in Ha- as sunspot 1452 and the filaments gets longer and longer.A region with higher temperature is also noted at the centre of the filament.This continue until the filament erupt just about 3 days before this-1450--goes to the other side.There should be more than one eruptions as this long filament disappear in stages.
3)The view in Cak is even more interesting.The submitted photo is a typical view of the sunspot group when available on the earth facing side.Throughout its journey,it looks like a comet with a head and a glowing tail;clearly indicating its actually still active .
4)If you solely look at it in white light,you will definitely be cheated.At its peak,540nm only review it as 2 dot--one big one small.Initially worse still the dot are supersmall.This clearly illustrate that to get a clear pic of a sunspot group,you definitely need ALL 3 views to get the true picture of whats going on.
A final word--this morning,2 new sunspots were spotted.Hence the sun is spotless for only 1 day.
Superactive sun!

[Gary]

Massive proms!!!

[Davegn]

WOW!
Thanks for uploading the photos.

Solar viewing seem really fun. but too bad for me knowing me body.
i would melt if i would be doing that.

Maybe one of this day i would have a test try before the venus transit.

[superiorstream]

Yes,the sun can give us stunting view but its really hot out there esp in the tropics and if you are not 'seasoned' it can cause you sickness.
As for this CME--Corona mass ejection,do note the following
1)The whole event as usual,lasted about 20 to 30 minutes.This particular one--22 minutes.However,sometimes its come in multiple burst with interval in between lasting for hours.;Thus the key is--once you spot such a event,you can set up your scope 2 to 3 times on that day and run a high chance of spotting another one.
2)This particular one reach the height from 6 to 10 earth diameter.Notice the bright elongated patch on the right that eventually disappear into space.Knowing the distances involved,you can see that those particles reach speed of mach 10 or more!Fantastic.
3)Notice the white glowing patches on the sun around the CME.Its always like that and such places of elivated temperature always appear hand in hand with CME--at least thats what I see so far.
4)Notice the 'force field type loop' where the hot glowing gas gather.Now,we call it magnetic but I wonder if there is another type of force unknown to us has cause it.Anyway its nice to watch and be amazed by the fact that such 'field lines'can hold size of gas several earth diameter.Fantastic natural law at work.

[superiorstream]

Hi,All
This morning 9:12am Spore time my solar x-class flare scope detected an x-class flare at the edge of the sun--should be at sunspot 1469 and then about 1/2 to 1 hr later c-class or higher(the most m- class flare) at location of sunspot 1470/71/72.Submitting photo later.

[Clifford60]

Hi Chia, care to share what is x-class, o-class, m-class, etc to sotong like me!

[superiorstream]

Hi,All
First of all,the sunspot that exhibit a x-class flare is not 1469--its not even named yet by spaceweather.com by now!Its a new hugh sunspot just coming into view!Exciting!Sorry about that.
Will be posting photo later.
Hi,Clifford
The class of a flare depends on the temperature with the x-class the highest going up from a million degrees or even higher--its a classification designated by nasa.However,to a visual observer,we can see it in terms of the 'white 'glow it gives in Ha.Thus I use a wider bandwidth Ha filter specially for x-class flare.That scope usually give me a even redness across the sun even when spaceweather informed of a m or c class flare.Today a bright flash is observed in that 'wide' bandwidth scope--so definitely a x-class flare.As for c and m class, a 0.7A bandwidth scope will show it;but with different brightness.Here,experiences counts.As for the theortical classification you can see the various posting/link in spaceweather.com.Thanks.