My Solar Viewing Journal For August 2008
LAST UPDATED: August 31, 2008 at 8:30pmEST/0030z
8-1-08 - Managed a view on a day with terrible conditions!
8-1-08 - This month started off with a solar eclipse!
Nick Howes captured the eclipse as well as a spectacular prom!
8-1-08 - Nytecam also captured the eclipse in a sequence!
8-1-08 - P-M Heden also caught the eclipse!
8-1-08 - Stephen Ramsden also captured it!
8-1-08 - Mark Walters shared these wonderful captures and anumation!
8-1-08 - Dave Leong shared this beautiful capture!
8-1-08 - Emiel Veldhuis blows me away!
8-2-08 - Again, terrible conditions!
8-2-08 - Jeff Young sketched this 'cracklin' prom on the North limb!
8-2-08 - Cai Wohler shared another gem with us!
8-2-08 - Mark Walters shared his images as well!
8-3-08 - Beautiful conditions!
8-3-08 - SOHO's shot from the same time for comparison!
Orientated to match my sketch for easier comparison!
8-4-08 - The North limb had a very long complex prominence!
8-4-08 - Pete Lawrence captured that complex prominence perfectly!
8-5-08 - Again, the North limb was the most active!
8-5-08 - Stephen Ramsden shared this great capture!
8-6-08 - Any view is a good view!
8-6-08 - Paul Robertson shared these beauts!
8-7-08 - Just a few small proms!
8-7-08 - Paul Robertson also saw those proms!
8-7-08 - Pete Lawrence captured this great image this morning!
8-8-08 - First chilly morning of the season, had to wear a shirt, LOL!
8-9-08 - Plenty to see, 2 large proms stole the show!
8-9-08 - Pete Lawrence captured one of the large proms, WOW!
8-9-08 - Fox Keri shared this awesome mosaic!
8-9-08 - Alan Friedman's shots are amazing!
8-10-08 - Another great day for a view!
8-10-08 - Fox Keri shared this incredible full disk shot!
8-10-08 - Someone named "halpha" submitted this spectacular capture to SW!
8-10-08 - Nick Howes also presents another amazing capture!
8-10-08 - Pete Lawrence also captured this wall of plasma!
8-10-08 - Jeff Young shared this wonderful sketch!
8-10-08 - Paul Robertson captured ALL of the activity!
8-11-08 - And another!
8-11-08 - Paul Robertson always confirms my observations!
8-12-08 - The proms have been great the last few days!
8-12-08 - Paul Robertson captures and shared ALL of the activity again!
8-12-08 - Pete Lawrence may have captured an emerging AR this morning!
8-13-08 - Most were too faint to blowup, but plenty to see!
8-13-08 - J. Stetson & J. Fairful finally found a break in the clouds!
8-13-08 - Fox Keri shot these gems!
8-14-08 - Just another day for a view, beautiful weather, fair seeing!
8-14-08 - Mark Walters shared these wonderful captures!
8-14-08 - Paul Robertson captured EVERYTHING again!
8-14-08 - Greg Piepol shared this awesome CA and H-Alpha comparison!
8-14-08 - Pete Lawrence captured this detail in a single exposure!
8-14-08 - Richard Best also captured some hot shots!
8-15-08 - Nick Howes is such a hot shot!
8-15-08 - Paul Robertson always captures all the action!
8-16-08 - Paul Robertson shared one today!
8-16-08 - Oldfield managed to get his view on again!
8-17-08 - After a couple days of terrible conditions, I got my view on!
8-17-08 - Paul Robertson captured it all as well!
8-17-08 - Uwe Pilz shared this well documented sequence!
8-17-08 - Greg Piepol always makes me go, WOW!
8-17-08 - Mark Walters also shared one from his session!
8-17-08 - Ralph Marantino also found favorable conditions!
8-18-08 - Beautiful morning, only a couple of nice proms!
Combined mine with Pete's for comparison, aint that kewl?!?!?!
8-18-08 - Pete Lawrence captured all there was this morning
The last one is mine and Pete's next to each other!
8-18-08 - Fox Keri shared these wonderful captures!
8-18-08 - Nick Howes made these 2 fantastic animations!
8-18-08 - Mark Walters also shot a hot one!
8-19-08 - Spotted a possible new AR forming off of the north limb this morning!
First noticed a "river of plage", then a closer examination revealed a nice sized area of activity!!
8-19-08 - Pete Lawrence is on a serious roll over the next few days!
8-20-08 - Much of the same as yesterday except the proms were very faint!
8-20-08 - Pete Lawrence captured it all again!
8-20-08 - Stephen Ramsden shared this wonderful shot!
8-21-08 - Pete Lawrence present today's activity!
8-21-08 - Paval Rapavy was the first to capture the new spots!
8-21-08 - Paul Robertson was a shutter bug today!
8-21-08 - J. Stetson, J. Fairfull & J. Fazzi captured the ISS transiting the disk while they imaged, WOW!
8-22-08 - Very hazy, nothing in whitelight(to me) missed plenty!
8-22-08 - Fox Keri was on the money today, great job!
8-22-08 - Nick Howes created this masterpiece!
8-22-08 - Pete Lawrence again led the charge!
8-23-08 - Saw plenty of crap, not much sun!
8-23-08 - Pete Lawrence, as always, blows me away!
8-23-08 - Mark Walters shared this wonderful full disk shot!
8-24-08 - Nick Howes sewed a beauty together!
8-24-08 - Pete Lawrence, as always, blows me away!
8-24-08 - Paul Robertson captured the action very well!
8-25-08 - Emiel Veldhuis shared this wonderful image and animation!
8-25-08 - P-M Heden got his view on and I'm very thankful!
8-25-08 - Paul Robertson captured this elongated prominence!
8-26-08 - Only had a few moments so I sketched the biggest prom I saw!
I combined it with an image by J. Stetson's students J. Fairfull, P. Fazzi and B. Adkins!
These guys have a great teacher in John *UPDATED COMPILATION*!
8-26-08 - Fox Keri is really cranking out the gems!
8-27-08 - Fox Keri is on a roll!
8-27-08 - Pete Lawrence really blew me away today!
8-27-08 - Paul Robertson also shared a beaut!
8-27-08 - The Stetson gang keeps the comparison going!
8-28-08 - Very humid but 2 spectacular sets of prominences stood out thru the haze!
8-28-08 - John Stetson's team is on a roll!
8-28-08 - James Ty shared this awesome capture!
8-29-08 - Paul Robertson was the only one to share a capture from today!
8-30-08 - Poor conditions and only a few proms!
8-30-08 - Nick Howes shared some beauties today!
8-30-08 - Richard Best shared a sharp shot!
8-30-08 - Pete Lawrence constantly amazes me!
8-30-08 - Mark Walters shot a wonderful series!
8-31-08 - Adrian Guzman shares a beauty to end the month!
8-31-08 - Alan Friedman also helps close the month out with a WOW!
8-31-08 - Cai Wohler also got his view on and stuns me with his detail!
My all time favorite Prominence from 1945, I lived to see one like this!!
You can use this to identify the different types of features!
