Active Region 1024

July 6th 2009
Bray , Co Wicklow

AR 1024 July 6th 09:15 UT PST 40 8mm TVP eyepiece - 50X. Pastels and Staedtler Ergosoft Pencils on black paper. Seeing - Wilson Scale 3 Some very fine detail visible , the AR is not as busy as the 4th of July. The flares seem less active. I just managed this one sketch before the clouds rolled in again. The AR fibrils stood out very clearly from time to time , the plage was much less vibrant than July 4th. The mottling held well defined patterns over large areas. One of the sunspots appeared larger than previous and the penumbra was visible without going up and down the bandwidth of the scope. I sketched in the spots alone first then tuned the scope to pick out the other details visible in the h alpha. Today I decided to use pencil over pastel to try to achieve as exact a sketch as I could.

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