AR 1005

Months of cloudy skies have made me hungry to image. This morning’s brief spell of full sunshine finally allowed me to capture a sunspot, AR1005. Though small, it already displays evidence of magnetic tug-of-wars that will expand in size and numbers towards solar maximum in 2012. It is only the fifth sunspot in the current sunspot minimum of the new solar cycle that has thus far started with very few and far spots in between.

Date Imaged: October 18, 2008

Lens: Astrophysics 5

Mount: Losmandy Titan

Date Imaged

October 18, 2008

Lens

Astrophysics 5

Exposure

NA

Mount

Losmandy Titan

Camera: Dragonfy 2

Filter: Hydrgen alpha 0.7Angstrom

Location: Stardust Observatory, Baguio, Philippines

Coordinates

Na

Camera

Dragonfy 2

Filter

Hydrgen alpha 0.7Angstrom

Location

Stardust Observatory, Baguio, Philippines

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