Unedited Solar Images from Jan 2012 onwards

[Gary]

[superiorstream]

Thanks Gary for the good work of uploading.As for the images,note the following
1)Those active sunspots are constantly changing shape and surrounded by bright regions.
2)All three wavelength--Cak,Ha,540nm will give differing views of the same spot and hence provide
greater excitement in the field of solar observing.
3)540nm is easiest,then Ha;but Cak requires real good clear skies to yield clear images.Cak need a camera and to the eye,you see nothing---at least,my eye see nothing at that frequency.
4)0.5A bandwidth shows more detail than 0.6--0.7A bandwidth images and in fact much more
filaments and bright regions can be seen.At times a bright band can be seen across the sun at 0.5A bandwidth but for that you need a double stack to do that.Those bright bands are sign of more activities to come later.

As of sunspot 1410,activities are dying down and so will upload only later.Thanks for watching.

[Gary]

Hot off the oven today. Pun intended.

[superiorstream]

Hi,All
Thanks Gary for the good work.Note the following
1)Sunspot 1410 has just--today--go over the edge of the sun;but the display is good.Uploading photo later.
This sunspot made its appearence as a monopole type with a glowing band following it ;however that band
disappear within 3 days.After that a bright patch emerge from its side and ultimately that evolve into a sunspot and after that starts flaring.Interesting sunspot.
2)Even with no spot,you can see lots of long filaments on the sun nowadays.Those 2 in the photo are example
and are approx greater than 600,000Km long.Of course there are also lots of prominences on the sun and the photo shows a typical one.Enjoy it.

[Gary]

I bet even David Copperfield can't float that!

[superiorstream]

Thanks Gary for uploading.These levitating prominences are rare and should not be mixed up with gases thrown out of the sun which looks floating and glow red for say 20min or so and cools down and 'disappears'.This one I photo was there at 8.40am and not move and continue glowing hot till 11am when my session ends.Dont know when it disintegrate,but by today 5:30pm,no more there.
These levitating prominences are interesting as the understanding of it may solve a fundamental question in the quest for fusion energy.We still dont have the tech to contain the hot plasma to enable a smooth and continuous controlled fusion to generate electricity.If we can duplicate that
'levitating plasma' and control it for hours/day---thats the day we solve the energy crisis and we can
change hydrogen into helium and get all the energy we need.
Thats why the sun is interesting.
As for the sunspots;it proof to be stable but uninteresting.In fact the changing show of filaments on the surface proof more interesting;however nothing like those 800,000km ones shows up.Thanks for reading.

[Gary]

Thanks for the explanations. Appreciate it. Saw the "tornado" solar flares video a few days ago. Very interesting too.

[Gary]

Nice filament and massive prominences!

[superiorstream]

Thanks Gary for the upload.This L shape filament was observed between 22 to 25? Feb 2012 and total length should easily exceed 600,000 km.What interesting is that its an activity that can be watch ONLY in the Ha earthbased--I have yet to see one in Cak--minus those frequency like uv etc where you can only see from space! and normally its based or surrounded by portions that glow WHITE like patches of NOISES in digital photo.These are places of great boiling activities with temperature higher than the surrounding.On my photo above you see it most prominently at the tip of the L shape.Imagine
--By Stefan's Law, E=kT^4
dE/dT=4kT^3
dE/E=4dE/T
so with the temp of the sun as 5000 deg C and just an dT of 500 deg C;such patches will radiate 40% than its surrounding.Thats make your imagination run wild when you see many such long filament and a whole band of such 'white patch' across the sun.Thats what make the sun interesting.Take a look.Thanks.

[Gary]

New batch of photos of our nearest Star.