My Solar Viewing Journal For May 2007

05-01-07 - Didier Favre starts the month off with this awesome image!
Click on the image to visit his website!

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05-01-07 - Brandon Morrissette took this 'hot' shot of 953!

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05-02-07 - Pete Lawrence shot this series, you can see the long whip-like prom
that has been there for days, wisp away to the SW!
Click on picture to visit Pete's website!

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05-01,3,4-07 - John Stetson's series shows 953 over 4 days!

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05-05-07 - Finally got to view long enough to make an observation!

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05-05-07 - Again, Pete Lawrence catches 953 working it's way to the limb!
Click on picture to visit Pete's website!

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05-06-07 - Wind again reduced viewing time but what I could see was clear and detailed!

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05-06-07 - Mike Strieber took this great shot of today's dancing proms!

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05-07-07 - Little gusy winds frustrated me although visibility was great!

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05-07-07 - John Stetson's image shows 953 approaching the limb and awaiting proms!

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05-07-07 - Actually had 3 viewing sessions today, this was the third, 953 is all but gone!

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05-08-07 - Clear disk except for a small filament and sunspot 955 near E limb...
The day got very exciting as a large explosive prom took off in the early evening!

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05-08-07 - John Stetson caught this great set of a rapidly changing prom today!

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05-09-07 - 1st, of hopefully, a few viewing sessions today, little high haze in a.m.,
955 is easy to spot as it moves toward center of disk along with some proms!

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05-09-07 - I was lucky enough to catch an explosive prom from beginning to end today,
SOHO snapped a pic at the perfect time also!

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05-09-07 - Patrick Stoker took these incredible images, first is sunspot 955, great detail!

He also captured these towers of plasma!
Click on either image to visit his website!

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05-10-07 - Little high haze in a.m., but all in all, very good visibility, possible new active region!
955 was very clear, I could see small proms crossing the region, very kewl!

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05-10-07 - Mike Strieber again captured some spectacular proms!

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05-11-07 - Clouds and rain gave way for a quick viewing session!

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05-11-07 - Robert Morlan captured this great shot!

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05-12-07 - Lots of proms and growing filaments!

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05-12-07 - Robert Arnold captured this great shot of Sunspot 955!
Does anyone else see a solar scorpion?

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05-13-07 - Nice "M" shaped prom on SW limb, disk very bright, found it hard to see surface detail!

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05-13-07 - Robert Arnold shared his magic with me again, one still and one animated!

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05-13-07 - John Stetson and his student Brandon took this great shot today!

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05-14-07 - New active region was easier to see than 955, scattered filaments today also!

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05-14-07 - Larry Alvarez took an incredible series, here's a couple!...
Click on the picture to visit his website, Flower Mound Observatory!


05-15-07 - From Emiel Veldhuis captured this fantastic image!
Click on the picture to visit his website!

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05-16-07 - Wind and clouds may today a struggle!

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05-16-07 - We've all heard of a blue moon, ever heard of a blue sun?
Pete Lawrence captured one in this great CA image!
Click on picture to visit Pete's website!

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05-17-07 - Perfect day with plenty to see!

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05-17-07 - Maxim Usatov captured this great shot of sunspot 956!
Click on picture to visit Maxim's website!

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05-18-07 - Less proms, more filaments and active regions!

05-18-07 - From Emiel Veldhuis caught this solar scorpion crawling on the surface!
Click on the picture to visit his website!

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05-19-07 - WOW! I watched 956 for 40 mins before sketching and it was far from static!
Proms all over the place as well, sol woke up active and spectacular this morning!
956 maintained a beautiful looped prom over it all day, very picturesque!

UPDATE: Reported on spaceweather.com on 5-24-07 - On May 19th at 12:52 Universal Time,
a magnetic filament erupted on the sun. The blast sent shock waves billowing through
the sun's atmosphere; those waves, in turn, generated strong Type II solar radio emissions.
Amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft heard them in the loudspeaker of his 21 MHz ham receiver

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05-19-07 - Got Milk?...Pete Lawrence knows how to shoot Calcium, that's for sure!!
Click on picture to visit Pete's website!

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05-20-07 - More animation from Robert Arnold!

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05-21-07 - John Stetson and his students captured this image!

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05-22-07 - Pete Lawrence shared this beautiful image!
Click on picture to visit Pete's website!

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05-24-07 - Adam, one of John Stetson's students first image!

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05-25-07 - Pete Lawrence loves his CA, and so do we!
Click on picture to visit Pete's website!

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05-25-07 - John Stetson took this great shot!

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05-26-07 - John Candy took this great shot today!

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05-27-07 - Disk was perfect, yet blank, scattered small proms around limb!

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05-27-07 - Robert Arnold put lots of time into these 2 animations!

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05-28-07 - Same as yesterday, not much happening! My 43rd bitrthday!

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05-28-07 - Mike Strieber's negative shows awesome detail!

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05-29-07 - When I thought there couldn't be less, LOL, struggled thru clouds for this!

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05-29-07 - John Stetson and his students captured this great shot of this long lasting filament!

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05-30-07 - Filamentasia today, not much happening!

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05-29-07 - J. Stetson, T, Johnstone and C. Miller took these great shows showing the changes
in the long filament that's been lingering for a few days!

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You can use this to identify the different types of features!

All pictures used with permission of the imager!