The Sun
| Contributed by John Chumack from Dayton, Ohio |
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Ohio imager John Chumack sent in this report: X-ray class flares are erupting from sunspot 1748. There have been four in the past two days! The Sun is still active! After receiving alerts from NASA’s 3-D Sun app notifying me of the flares, I took a quick look at the Sun through a Hydrogen-alpha filter and then captured the new sunspot 1748 with crackling loop flares coming around the eastern limb. The large sunspot is #1745. I also captured a very long prominence on the western limb. Wow! Really nice to see the Sun ramping it up a bit. (Lunt 60mm 50F Hydrogen-alpha telescope, DMK31 CCD camera, 1/387-second exposure, taken May 13, 2013, from Dayton, Ohio)
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