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My Solar Viewing Journal For April 2008


4-1-08 - Bad conditions!

4-1-08 - Pete Lawrence starts this month off with a WOW!

4-1-08 - Matt Wastell starts the month off hot!

4-2-08 - Beautiful morning!

4-2-08 - Greg Piepol bids adieu to AR987!

4-2-08 - SOHO at same time I viewed!

4-2-08 - Emiel Veldhuis put this wonderful animation together!

4-2-08 - Andy Tennant captured this amazing prom!

4-2-08 - Pete Lawrence uses CA to show us the light!
Here is a compilation of 988 over the last 8 days!

4-2-08 - Scott McCormick's afocal shots show it the way I see it, I love them!

4-3-08 - John Stetson captured a beautiful one today!

4-3-08 - Pete Lawrence never fails to amaze!

4-4-08 - Pete Lawrence presents this magnificant image for us today, WOW!

4-5-08 - Pete Lawrence has been on a roll this month!

4-5-08 - John Stetson joined the photo-frenzy!

4-5-08 - Andy Tennant captured some great limb activity!

4-5-08 - Peter Paice shared this wonderful presentation!

4-5-08 - Here is a CME from as recorded by the LASCO C2!

4-6-08 - Finally got back out there, beautiful morning!

The SOHO shot from the time I viewed, pretty close huh?!

4-6-08 - Erika Rix dazzles us again with her presentation!

4-6-08 - And an even better afternoon!

4-6-08 - Emiel Veldhuis got his view on, WOW!

4-6-08 - Oldfield got out there and shared with us this gem!

4-6-08 - Nick Howe shared this awesome series!

4-6-08 - Nick Howe may have also capture a Moreton wave,
which is basically a solar tsunami, look to right of feature!

Here is a solar tsunami from 12-08-06!

4-6-08 - Robert Arnold also captured a wonderful image!

4-6-08 - John Nassr caught the spectacular looping prom!

4-6-08 - Martin Farmer couldn't stay on the sidelines!

4-6-08 - Joel Bavais shared this awesome capture as well!

4-6-08 - Cai Wohler shows how dynamic the sun really is!

4-6-08 - Didier Favre turned in this wonderful image!

4-7-08 - Crystal clear Kentucky morning made for a great view!

4-7-08 - And a great afternoon to go along with it!

4-7-08 - Patricia Cannaerts managed to get her view on as well!

4-8-08 - Not much to see today!

4-8-08 - Patricia Cannaerts captured all there was!

4-9-08 - John Adair caught this great exploding prom!

4-10-08 - Again, not much worthy of noting!

4-10-08 - Pete Lawrence captured this nice image today!

4-11-08 - Pete Lawrence found this wonderful prom!

4-12-08 - Looks like a new high latitude AR is appearing!!

4-12-08 - Pete Lawrence grabbed all the goodies in this presentation!

4-12-08 - Cai Wohler captured this detailed view of today's prom, with scale!

4-13-08 - Ralph Marantino reported this morning's activity!

4-13-08 - Pete Lawrence shows us the new, yet un-numbered, AR!

4-13-08 - Max Usatov shows the new AR in CA light!

4-13-08 - Howard Eskildsen shows us the new spots!

4-14-08 - Ralph Marantino got his view on!

4-14-08 - Pete Lawrence put this spectacular presentation together!

4-14-08 - Max Usatov captured this beautiful prominence!

4-14-08 - Malcolm Park shared this gem on SW!

4-14-08 - SOHO give multiple views of the new Active Region!

4-15-08 - Just an incredible morning, 60s, sunny and plenty to see!

4-15-08 - Limb visibility was nil, focused on active region!

4-15-08 - Les Cowley uses 990 to display his skills!

4-15-08 - Greg Piepol put this wonderful comparison together!

4-15-08 - John Stetson found 990 as well!

4-15-08 - Ralph Marantino aslo found the conditions favorable!

4-15-08 - Pete Lawrence made the best of poor conditions, I love the detail!

4-15-08 - Compilation from Les, Pete and Stets shows 990 over a 7hr period!

4-16-08 - Another Sol filled morning in the Bluegrass State!

4-16-08 - John Stetson really captured the NW prom!

4-16-08 - Ralph Marantino found the NJ morning to his liking!

4-16-08 - Malcolm Park put together a wonderful presentation!

4-16-08 - Patricia Cannaerts got her view on this morning and made her 1st animation!
You can see she captured her images during this morning's flare!

4-16-08 - Nick Howe really grabbed some hot ones!

4-16-08 - Pete Lawrence captured a spectacular prom!

4-17-08 - Not as much to see, 990 is fading slowly!

4-17-08 - Pat Stoker presents this hot shot!

4-17-08 - Emiel Veldhuis created this awesome animation!

4-17-08 - Pete Lawrence captured the dancing bananas!

4-17-08 - Greg Piepol had melon on the brain, LOL!

4-18-08 - Plenty to see, didn't even realize how much until I was done!

4-18-08 - Ralph Marantino once again shares his finds!

4-18-08 - Captured by John Stetson with students B. Atkins & J. Fairfull!

4-19-08 - I tried to sketch what I could during sucker hole, got cut short!

4-20-08 - Managed to grab an afternoon view between sheets of clouds!

4-20-08 - Mike Strieber shred this beauty!

4-20-08 - Pete Lawrence always amazes with his images!

4-20-08 - Didier Favre also grabbed this awesome capture!

4-20-08 - Brane also captured the moment!

4-21-08 - Beautiful morning. Big Bear & SOHO images from same time below mine!

4-21-08 - Pete Lawrence grabbed the 3 proms I saw, love it!

4-22-08 - New cycle spot forming, very easy to see in white light mode as well!

4-22-08 - Pete Lawrence captured this rapidly forming new spot over a few hours!

4-22-08 - Emiel Veldhuis put his 1st mosaic together and it's great!

4-23-08 - New AR 992 has plenty of company on the disk, very active!

4-23-08 - Pete Lawrence really captured ALL the activity today!

4-23-08 - Nick Howe also presents some spectacular captures!

4-23-08 - Patricia Cannaerts captured one of the many filaments
snaking their way across the disk today!

4-23-08 - Maxim Usatov also captured some the activity today!

4-23-08 - Greg Piepol put this wonderful comparison together!

4-24-08 - We have been blessed with lots of acitvity recently!
Big Bear image for comparison!

4-24-08 - Paul Haese blew me away with this presentation,
this is going to be a great week of photos!

4-24-08 - Maxim Usatov captured this morning's activity!

4-24-08 - Ralph Marantino found the conditions to be favorable as well!

4-25-08 - Beautiful morning with plenty to see still!

4-25-08 - Emiel Veldhuis wow'd me with this presentation!

4-25-08 - J.Stetson's student, B. Atkins, took this geat shot!

4-26-08 - Terrible seeing conditions, focused on flaring region!

4-26-08 - Emiel Veldhuis caught the flare as well!

4-26-08 - Patricia Cannaerts captured the flare as well!

4-26-08 - Joel Bavais captured some wonderful images as well!

4-26-08 - Will Gater captured it just prior to maximum!

4-26-08 - David Strange captured the sun's dynamic nature over this 2hr period!

4-27-08 - Still plenty to see!

4-27-08 - Emiel Veldhuis imaged in CA today!

4-28-08 - Beautiful clear morning with plenty of disk and limb activity!

4-28-08 - Check out Malcolm Park's presentation, WOW!

4-29-08 - Caught a 20 minute sucker hole, couldn't see anything on limb!

4-29-08 - Patricia Cannaerts captured a prom blowin in the wind!

4-29-08 - Pete Lawrence captured ALL the action today!

4-29-08 - P-M Heden got his view on today!

4-30-08 - One of the best viewing days I have seen, crystal clear!

4-30-08 - Ralph Marantino found his swee spot today!

4-30-08 - Robert Arnold captured the spectacular prom on the West limb!

Interesting April items!
4-4-08 SOHO Pick Of The Week: STEREOs first M-Class flare and CME on 3/25/08!

4-11-08 - SOHO Pick Of The Week was a large twisting prom over 2 activer regions on 4/5-6/08!

4-18-08 - SOHO Pick Of The Week was large eruptive prom from April 9th!

4-25-08 - SOHO Pick Of The Week shows an active region over 40hrs over the 18th and 19th. This image is showing temperatures at 1 million degrees!
You can use this to identify the different types of features!

All pictures used with permission of the imager!

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