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| Taken late-afternoon on 06-Apr-2003 behind a veil of light cirrus clouds (North is up and West is to the right). Darkened AR0325 now approaches the NW limb as its journey across the face nears completion. The serpentine filaments that led its way now leap from the surface, exiting as prominences just beyond the horizon. Approaching the West limb at the three o'clock position is AR0324, which is reported to have developed a delta-class magnetic field and may yet spawn some major (X-class) solar flares. Having but a short time to gather images on this Sunday afternoon, I did manage to also squeak off a few lower powered shots before dinner, resulting in the full-disk image below. AR0330 can be seen just inward of the ten o'clock position below, and has a beta-gamma magnetic field capable of generating medium sized (M-class) flares. Image Info: Canon EOS D60 digital SLR, Coronado Solarmax90/T-Max, and 30mm blocking filter attached to a Takahashi FS128 via T-mount TeleVue Powermates (4x for the quadrant image to the right and 2x for the full-disk below) . Processing was done in Images Plus and final polishing in Adobe PhotoShop. |
| AR0325 bids farewell |
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