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Paul
Very very nice one !
Best of luck for 2021 from Cliff

Brian
I can say there have been some interesting prominences on the Sun recently.
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Steve Thanks very much for completely solving that Sunspot problem. I have quite often picked up Sunspots in Ha images that I have either imaged or visually observed (or both) in White Light. But from what I recall they have always been very prominent Sunspots in W.L. So it seems possible some Sunsp...

Three images now attached,
NO Sunspots visually observed, nor imaged, in White Light using my 88 mm refractor. However, the Sun provided more interest in Hydrogen Alpha light with regards both Disk detail & very particularly Prominences than I expected.
from Cliff

Steve; sorry I'm late responding to your interesting comments. I'm particularly pleased you mentioned the small dark 4 o'clock dark spot on my 3rd January Ha disk image. I noticed that dark spot after initially processing the image using Registax Version 5, initially thinking it a likely Sunspot . H...

I needed to login using my password to get on the forum. Then typed a post & added three images only to then learn I needed to enter my password to download my supposed post & attachments - which then seemed to get demolished. Now this time I just hopefully attach my first three 2021 Sun ima...

It was snowing here when I got up, later turning to rain. Things got better as the day progressed but still frustrating cloud interference, but in the afternoon,I did get some occasional visual glimpses of the Sun through my 88mm refractor & even managed to get a few short video clips replacing ...

SkyBrowser and Steve, thanks for your comments. SkyBrowser - interesting what you said. Looking at my Hydrogen Alpha images the Sunspots seemed to me doubles, However, despite much cloud today (29th Dec) I glimpsed & imaged the Sun briefly in White Light. So that image will soon be appearing on ...

A cloudy day here today (28th) but yesterday was a bit better, though far from perfect. 27th December, was a mixed day. When I got up it was snowing, but only for few minutes. As the morning progressed I glimpsed the Sun & about 10:00UT I saw the nice Sunspot through thin cloud filtered 20x60 bi...

Steve
A very nice eerie Moon .
Ironically I can't use and never succeed in using my mobile phone for it's original purpose, because of my deafness. So I envy your success.
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Christmas Eve morning I visually observed the Sun using safely filtered 20x60 binoculars - surprise, surprise seeing a nice Sunspot, However, I attach a Christmas Card view of some alien mountains defying global warming with a covering of white stuff. (Dow Crag is extreme left, the Scafells mid-phot...

BrianS
Great stuff again !
Certainly seems the Sun can still be interesting despite everything.
Best of luck from Cliff

The Sun gave me a frustrating time today. No rain but very cloudy morning. Conditions looked like possibly improving after mid-day so I then hopefully set up to visually observing & imaging the Sun through our west facing back bedroom window in the afternoon. I visually glimpsed the Sun through ...

BrianS
Great stuff - nice to see!
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Plenty of activity on the Sun today - quickly drifting cloud causing more problems than I liked but at least I got some images - three attached.
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