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Initial impression was a bit of disappointment because the huge prominence that others are reporting wasn’t apparent to me at the eyepiece. Later today, that large prominence was reported to have dissipated by 1600UT, so I believe I had just caught the tail end of it. It was to the northwest and at 1615UT, all that I could see in that area with our poor transparency was a faint wisp of a prominence.
There were three areas of plage; one nearly midway across the disk and a second one to the east, both in the northern hemisphere; and another small area ~ 150° just inside the southern limb. This southern one makes me wonder if it could be an ephemeral region. Three fairly obvious filaments could be seen, the largest nearly reaching the small prominence at ~190°. The center of the disk was full of the dark hairlike fractures of fibrils or spicules, making a beautiful scene when moments of better sky conditions would allow for it. |
