Sun – March 16th, 2024
On March 16th 2024, I took my first photo of the sun with my hydrogen-alpha solar telescope. The seeing (sky steadiness) was horrible due to filming the sun when it was fairly low on the horizon, and in windy conditions. Seeing quality is crucial to taking clear sun photos, which is why my first light photo is blurrier than I had hoped. Still though, it wasn’t a bad first light photo! There’s even some active regions, thanks to the sun currently being near solar maximum, the point in it’s 11 year cycle when it has the most activity. The features are listed below:
Number | Hale Class | Sunspot area (millionths) | # of sunspots | Recent flares |
13606 | Alpha | 10 | 2 | |
13607 | Beta | 20 | 6 | |
13610 | Alpha | 1 | ||
13611 | Alpha | 30 | 1 | |
13612 | Alpha | 10 | 1 | |
13613 | Beta | 70 | 7 |