My Solar Viewing Journal For October 2008
LAST UPDATED: November 9th, 2008 at 10:00pmEST/0300z
October saw 5 numbered sunspot groups, 4 from the new solar cycle 24!
This was the first month new cycle spots outnumbered old cycle, hang on!
Unless otherwise noted, sketches are done by Stephen "Darkstar" Ames
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10-1-08 - Stephen Ames - After the last week or so, today would be considered calm!
10-1-08 - Mark Walters!
10-2-08 - More interestiung proms!
10-2-08 - Mark Walters including comparison with my sketch!
10-3-08 - Stephen Ames - New AR under very good conditions!
10-3-08 - Pete Lawrence spotted the new AR for me!
10-3-08 - Robert Arnold;s!
10-3-08 - Nick Howes'!
10-4-08 - Stephen Ames - Some of the best conditions ever and I think I spotted an even NEWER AR
than the one from the 3rd, this one is off of the north limb indicated by the arrow!
10-4-08 - Robert Arnold's!
10-5-08 - Stephen Ames - A beautiful morning with good conditions again!
10-5-08 - Paul Robertson's!
10-5-08 - Erika Rix's!
10-5-08 - Andy Tanner's!
10-5-08 - Mark Walters'!
10-6-08 - Stephen Ames - AR1003 is fading fast, poor conditions!
10-7-08 - Stephen Ames - Poor conditions, little to see!
10-8-08 - Adrian Guzman's!
10-9-08 - Stephen Ames - The WEST limb is hopping with acitivity!
10-9-08 - Mark Walters'!
10-10-08 - Stephen Ames - Again the WEST limb is holds the majority of the acitivity!
10-10-08 - Me and Bunny were lucky enough to catch the ISS flying over head tonight!
10-11-08 - Stephen Ames - A NEW AR popped up and conditions were perfect!
Later in the day up to 3 more were seen emerging! Is Sol finally waking up?!
10-11-08 - Emiel Veldhuis'!
10-11-08 - Alan Friedman's animation from HA to WL to CA, amazing!
10-11-08 - Pete Lawrence found "4" ARs!
10-11-08 - Cai Wohler's!
10-11-08 - Andy Tennant's!
10-11-08 - Fox Keri's!
10-11-08 - Mike Borman's!
10-12-08 - Stephen Ames - AR1005 is still very bright, not a whole lot more!
10-12-08 - Mark Walters'!
10-12-08 - Pete Lawrence's!
10-12-08 - Alan Friedman's!
10-12-08 - Fox Keri's!
10-12-08 - Paul Robertson's!
10-12-08 - Nick Howe's!
10-12-08 - Paul Haese's!
10-12-08 - Greg Piepol's!
10-12-08 - Max Usatov's!
10-12-08 - Emiel Veldhuis'!
10-13-08 - Stephen Ames - AR1005 and I'm hoping a new one popped over edge of disk!!
10-13-08 - Robert Arnold's!
10-14-08 - Stephen Ames - One prom and AR1005, that's it!
10-14-08 - David Leong's!
10-15-08 - Stephen Ames - Same AR(s), lil other activity!
10-15-08 - Adrian Guzman's!
10-15-08 - David Leong's!
10-15-08 - Paval Rapovy's!
10-15-08 - Pat Stoker's!
10-16-08 - Pete Lawrence's!
10-16-08 - Mark Walters'!
10-17-08 - Stephen Ames - AR11005 & AR11006 and one nice prom!
10-17-08 - Emiel Veldhuis'!
10-17-08 - Maxim Usatov's!
10-17-08 - Nick Howes'!
10-18-08 - Stephen Ames - MOSTER PROM today, SOHO image from same time inserted!
10-18-08 - Mark Walters'!
10-18-08 - Paul robertson's!
10-18-08 - Emiel Veldhuis'!
10-18-08 - Andy Tennant's!
10-18-08 - Pete Lawrence's!
10-18-08 - Fox Keri's!
10-18-08 - Cai Wohler's!
10-19-08 - Stephen Ames - We started referring to this as the "4 corners"!
10-19-08 - Marc Fisher's first on my site and it's a killer!
10-19-08 - Stephen Ramsden's!
10-19-08 - Adrian Guzman's!
10-20-08 - Stephen Ames - "4 corners" of proms!...Again...
10-20-08 - Adrian Guzman's!
10-21-08 - Stephen Ames - Just a few proms
10-21-08 - jeff Young's wonderful sketches!
10-22-08 - Stephen Ames - Poor seeing, little to see...
10-22-08 - Adrian Guzman captured a phenomena known as a "Smoke Stack Surge"!
10-23-08 - Stephen Ames - Good seeing...Very complex and interesting prom on NW limb!
10-23-08 - M. Ungaro, C. Bergeron & N. Herbert captured the complex prom! Great shot guys!
10-23-08 - Adrian Guzman's!
10-24-08 - Adrian Guzman's!
10-24-08 - Jeff Young's!
10-24-08 - Andy Aston's first addition tot he site, thank you sir!
10-25-08 - Stephen Ames - Fair conditions, plenty of proms!
10-25-08 - Cai Wohler's!
10-25-08 - Emiel Veldhuis!
10-26-08 - Stephen Ames - Great conditions, little to see!
10-26-08 - Paul Robertson's!
10-27-08 - Paul Robertson's!
10-28-08 - Stephen Ames - Good conditions, a few proms, beautiful morning!
10-28-08 - Robert Arnold's!
10-29-08 - Stephen Ames - Strange atmospheric conditions made this an interesting morning!
10-29-08 - Paul Robertson's!
10-29-08 - Nick Howes'!
10-30-08 - Stephen Ames - Beautiful morning here, Promapalooza up there!!
10-31-08 - Stephen Ames - AR11007 popped up along with some scattered filaments!
10-31-08 - Paul Robertson's!
10-31-08 - Mark Walter'!
10-31-08 - Pavol Rapavy's!
Stephen Ames - This is aniumation of all my sketches for the month,
I was blessed to have 27 viewing days!!
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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!
All pictures used with permission of the imager!
