22:21UT; a dark "flare" in center of Sun???
Taken by Dr. J. Wayne Wooten on August 31, 2022 @
Pensacola, Florida
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I have seen sunspots the size of the moon vanish in an hour, but this seems unpredicented to me after 60 years of solar observing. When I set up the Lunt at 9:15 AM CDT, in addition to our old buddy AR 3089 just southwest of the solar center, there appeared to be a new AR, second most prominent on disk in Ha, just north of center of disk. I checked, no hint of its development on the SDO image, so I went in to report it as a new AR. Decided I wanted to reinforce it with visual photoscope through my Mak 102, so went back out to reshoot. I still have the Lunt on the Virtuoso, and was amazed that the dark area so prominent earlier had vanished at 10 AM in hydrogen alpha! With the Mak 102, it found a tiny black pore still visible in that position, but was this a really dark filament erupting right at us, then disappating in minutes? Any one else (SDO?) see this?
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