My Solar Viewing Journal For March 2008

Last updated: 3/30/08 4:53pmEST

March 08 - Solar Cycle 24!

3-1-08 - This ranks as one of the clearest days I viewed!
This is first time I sketched entire disk!

3-1-08 - Oldfield put a superb presentation together!

3-2-08 - Winds kept me from sketching more!
Clear as yesterday between gusts!

3-2-08 - A little bit of everything from Oldfield!

3-2-08 - Greg Piepol displays a beautiful comparison!

3-2-08 - Paulo Casquinha captured the many filaments du jour!

3-3-08 - Emiel Veldhuis shows us a wonderful CA:HA comparison and animation!

3-2-08 - J. Fairfull & P.Presby captured this King Snake, CRIKEY!

3-3-08 - J. Fairfull & P.Presby created a wonderful presentation showing
this 200,000+ mile long filmanet over the last 3 days, WOW!

3-4-08 - P-M Heden may have captured an emerging active region or sunspot!

3-4-08 - Ben Ritchie shared this great CA image!

3-4-08 - HINODE captured the short-lived region!

3-4-08 - Emiel fixed a CA PST!

3-5-08 - Managed to get a view between the clouds!

3-5-08 - Emiel Veldhuis allowed me to view his imaging session via webcam, that was very kewl, thank you Emiel!

3-5-08 - Jim Phillips captured 2 great images!

3-6-08 - More on limb than disk today!
My PST was delivered 1 year ago today!

3-6-08 - J. Fairfull caught it!

3-8-08 - Larry Alvarez showes off the beauty of the Calcium images!

3-8-08 - P-M Heden shares some great shots!

3-9-08 - VERY cold morning but well worth enduring!

3-9-08 - Definitely nice to get a 2nd view on!

3-9-08 - David M. captures this wild prominence!

3-9-08 - J. Fairfull captured the proms du jour!

3-9-08 - Michael Borman shared his great images from today!

3-9-08 - Oldfield put out a few beauties!

3-10-08 - High thin layer of clouds made it tough!

3-10-08 - Andy Dodson caught this short live spot!

3-10-08 - David M. captured another spectacular prominence!

3-11-08 - Terrible viewing conditions, could barely make anything out!

3-11-08 - Robert Arnold found some Scottish sun!

3-11-08 - Oldfield found that spot also!

3-11-08 - Pete Lawrence creted a beautiful presentation!

3-12-08 - Awesome conditions, barely any features worth noting!

3-13-08 - Started rough, but cleared up so I could see the little there was!

3-13-08 - J. Stets and J. Fairfull found the pillar of plasma!

3-14-08 - Les Cowley's sketches always inspire me!

3-14-08 - David M. found what there was to find!

3-15-08 - Greg Piepol was in the St Patty's Day Spirit!

3-15-08 - Larry Alvarez's full disk says it all for today!

3-16-08 - Robert Arnold caught this shortlived region!

3-18-08 - Jay Stoker shared a hot one!

3-19-08 - Nick H. captured 3 great imagres today, look at those proms!

3-20-08 - Couldn't ask for a better start to Spring,
the next few days were very active!

3-20-08 - Jim Phillips grabbed couple of hot ones today!

3-21-08 - Another beutiful morning to get my view on!

3-21-08 - Pete Lawrence captured a spectacular prominence!

3-21-08 - Peter Paice also imaged this wall of plasma!

3-21-08 - Colin Kaminski got his view on also!

3-22-08 - This was an awesome couple of days, here seen thru SOHO!

3-22-08 - Paul Haese captured this very big looping prom, WOW!

3-22-08 - Andy Dodson put this wonderful series together!

3-22-08 - P-M Heden managed to get his view on!

3-22-08 - Nick Howe put together an incredible rpesentation!

3-22-08 - John Stetson and Jay Fairfull took part in this pho frenzy!

3-22-08 - Pete Lawrence captured a spectacular prominence!

3-23-08 - Paul Haese shot some early morning beauties!

3-23-08 - Pat Stoker presents this wonderful series
Ole Sol has been very photogenic the last couple of days!!

3-23-08 - It went from a foggy red blob to clear in minutes
so I could see what everyone was imaging!

3-23-08 - Larry Alvarez couldn't sit back and not take part in the photofest!

3-23-08 - Pete Lawrence shows us the new spot in HA and CA!

3-23-08 - John Stetson grabbed this hot shot!

3-23-08 - Nick Howe couldn't sit on the sidelines!

3-23-08 - Howard Eskildsen also took part in this photothon!

3-23-08 - Cai Wohler also got his view on!

3-23-08 - Erika and Paul Rix showed us what a great team they are!

3-24-08 - Tuned PST CW as far as it would go and saw this!

3-24-08 - Normal view!

3-24-08 - John Stetson capture 987 and 988 in all their glory!

3-24-08 was another day of many images due to 2 spots appearing!

3-24-08 - John Nassr shot them!

3-24-08 - Cai Wohler also got his view on!

3-24-08 - Pete Lawrence slips an incredibe CA shot in there for good measure!

3-24-08 - Mike Strieber comes back strong after a long absence!

3-25-08 - There are 3 spots on the disk now, 987, 988 and hopefully to be name 989!

3-25-08 - Pete Lawrence never fails to astound!

3-25-08 - Rob Kaminski also got his cam out, WOW!

3-25-08 - P-M Heden caught some hot ones!

3-25-08 - Ralph Marantino has been one of the most influencial
people in the short time I've been sketching!

3-25-08 - Greg Piepol also pulled this beauty out of his cam!

3-25-08 - I just happened to catch an M Class Flare occuring!

3-25-08 - Jeff Barton captured what I saw, "the zit!"

3-25-08 - John Stetson came thru with a beauty!

3-25-08 - Paul Maxson got in close, bravo!

3-25-08 - Fabio Carvalho presents some great shots too!

3-25-08 - Jim Phillips really captured the details!

3-25-08 - Mike Strieber presents this awesome trio!

3-26-08 - Another beautiful morning with "3" active regions!

3-26-08 - Paul Haese caught it early from down under!

3-26-08 - Pete Lawrence shows a great comparison in great detail this morning!

3-26-08 - Robert Arnold caught this one flaring this morning!

3-26-08 - John Nassr once again captured this trinity!

3-26-08 - Ralph Marantino got his view on!

3-26-08 - Grabbed one from the BBSO while it was flaring!

3-27-08 - Pete Lawrence again offers a great comparison in great detail!

3-27-08 - P-M Heden also grabbed a couple of hot ones this morning!

3-27-08 - Robert Arnold captured a couple of beauties!

3-28-08 - Paul Haese REALLY came thru on these, WOWser!

3-28-08 - Pete Lawrence adds another amazing Calcium image!

3-28-08 - P-M Heden captured this image during a small flare!

3-29-08 - 1st sketch was 99% tuned CW, the 2nd was normal
although I clouded out midsketch...!

3-29-08 - Pete Lawrence always has a beautiful image(s) ready when I wake up!!

3-29-08 - Les Cowley ot his view on and sketched 988 in all it's glory!

3-29-08 - Ralph Marantino found plenty of features in the CA line!

3-29-08 - Mike Strieber's presentation says it all!

3-29-08 - P-M Heden has been on a roll!

3-29-08 - Oldfield had much better conditions than I did
and just kept putting them out today!

3-29-08 - Matthiar Juergens captured some wonderful images!

3-29-08 - Cai Wohler, Ching Yu, Joel Bavais, Mark Sibole, Peter Garbett
and John Stetson all get their views on as well! In Joel's(3rd down) he
captured the spots with a normal camera suring sunset, very kewl!

3-29-08 - Emiel Veldhuis finally got some Holland sun!

3-29-08 - Mt Wilson Observatory's daily sketch!

3-30-08 - Mike Oconnell really captured some great closeups!

3-30-08 - Ralph Marantino endured the weather to get his view on!

3-30-08 - Pete Lawrence presents an incredible white light image!

3-31-08 - Pete Lawrence presents an incredible white light image!

3-31-08 - Robert Arnold grabbed some hot ones!

3-31-08 - Brane showed off his imaging skills today!

3-31-08 - A last shot from SOHO for March!

3-31-08 - Les Cowley broke out the pad and closes the month for us!

3-31-08 - Greg Piepol tells us it's time to turn the page!

Interesting March items!
3-21-08 - SOHO Pick Of The Week was a close up of an emerging sunspot!

3-28-08 - SOHO Pick Of The Week was a large prominence from today!

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