By Bruce Bade | 2024-06-06
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Farewell AR3697!
On 06/08/2024 02:39 pm by David Hawkes| Sheffield, UK
Former giant sunspot AR3697 is now a more modest and compact size but still active by all accounts, emitting a high M-flare just recently. It’s approaching the western limb of the Sun so possibly the last time I will get to image it. Still plenty of other activity on the solar disk.
Skywatcher 8” Newtonian, 9.5” Seymour Solar white light glass solar filter, 1.5x Barlow lens, Nikon D3200.
Registax 6 for wavelets and minor contrast/saturation edits.