{"id":252,"date":"2023-06-22T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/?p=252"},"modified":"2023-06-22T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:33:13","slug":"flaring-sunspot-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Flaring Sunspot Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1120_0-AR13341-flare-1024x590.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1120_0-AR13341-flare-1024x590.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1120_0-AR13341-flare-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1120_0-AR13341-flare-768x443.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1120_0-AR13341-flare-1536x885.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1120_0-AR13341-flare-320x184.png 320w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1120_0-AR13341-flare-480x277.png 480w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1120_0-AR13341-flare-800x461.png 800w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1120_0-AR13341-flare.png 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meet AR13341, an active region (that&#8217;s what the &#8216;AR&#8217; stands for) on the Sun. Imaging this today, there were extremely bright ribbons of light visible through my h-alpha filter. These were due to an in-progress flare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solar seeing was odd this morning &#8211; very unstable but the undulating blobs had great clarity. Unfortunately, this seeing doesn&#8217;t process that well and the image is less sharp than I would have liked. I took a number of shots of the region and the results, covering a 3.3 minute time period, are show below in a short animation. Times are shown on the image frames, an important thing to add to any solar image as feature detail can change rapidly over extremely short timescales. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-1116_4_800h.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet AR13341, an active region (that&#8217;s what the &#8216;AR&#8217; stands for) on the Sun. Imaging this today, there were extremely bright ribbons of light visible through my h-alpha filter. These were due to an in-progress flare. Solar seeing was odd this morning &#8211; very unstable but the undulating blobs had great clarity. Unfortunately, this seeing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flaring Sunspot Group&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}