Sunspots just a day apart

• by ElisabethB

  #dailyzoo and yes, it stil looks like a crazy guy 😄

  23rd July 2014 10:47 PM
  

  22nd July 2014 9:11 PM
  

  Posted August 5, 2015 8:05 PM

• by DZM admin

  A pretty good suggestion. I'll keep this one in mind. 😃 Thanks!!

  Posted August 6, 2015 2:51 PM

• by ElisabethB

  And here they are on July 25th 2014 3:35 AM

  

  Posted August 10, 2015 1:34 PM

• by ElisabethB

  And here it is on July 21st :

  21/07/2014

  

  Posted August 11, 2015 9:46 PM

• by ElisabethB

  And just so you know : these images where presented at random, I didn't actively go searching for them. It just looks amazing seeing them come up. 😄

  Posted August 11, 2015 9:47 PM

• by ElisabethB

  And here it is on July 24th 4:23 PM !

  

  ASZ00012xn

  Posted August 17, 2015 6:38 PM

• by ElisabethB

  July 25th 2014 5:59 PM

  

  Posted August 28, 2015 12:48 PM

• by ElisabethB

  July 25 2004 12:23 AM

  

  Posted August 29, 2015 12:18 PM

• by ElisabethB

  July 26 2004 2:47 PM

  

  Posted August 29, 2015 1:46 PM

• by ElisabethB

  July 22 2004 5:59 PM

  

  Posted August 29, 2015 4:22 PM

• by ElisabethB

  July 25 2004 9:11 PM

  

  Posted August 29, 2015 4:33 PM

• by ElisabethB

  July 24 2004 9:59 AM

  

  Posted August 29, 2015 5:29 PM

• by ElisabethB

  If you find another 'face' please post it here. Maybe, one day, I'l put them all into order ! 😃

  Posted August 30, 2015 3:08 AM

• by dvdgc13 translator, scientist

  Nice!! that crazy face is looking at us 😃

  Posted August 31, 2015 2:22 PM

• by ElisabethB

  I'm trying to make a gif out of these. But I still need a couple of images !

  Posted August 31, 2015 4:55 PM

• by jules

  These any good? They are from a previous round:
  ASZ00003cu

  

  ASZ00003cy

  

  ASZ00003cx

  

  ASZ00003cr

  

  Posted August 31, 2015 9:06 PM

• by ElisabethB

  Brilliant ! Thanks Jules ! 😄

  Posted September 1, 2015 8:44 PM

• by Mjtbarrett

  Just wondered how the GIF was coming on? This link is to the SolarMonitor site for the day that it (AR 10652) started to form. If you move on a day at a time you see it munching through the transit 😃 Another GIF?? :-0

  http://solarmonitor.org/region_pop.php?date=20040720&type=smdi_maglc&region=10652&indexnum=1

  Posted September 5, 2015 9:14 AM

• by Mjtbarrett

  I had a quick go at the Sun Caterpillar GIF from a one a day time lapse from solarmonitor. Yours should look a lot smoother and more detailed. Have fun 😃

  sun caterpillar gif

  the Fe XII GIF for fun

  Posted September 5, 2015 10:12 AM

• by dvdgc13 translator, scientist in response to Mjtbarrett's comment.

  Nice to see solarmonitor.org used in here!! Thanks @Mjbarrett

  Nevertheless, our time resolution in sunspotter is longer... at least we should have one image every 96 minutes - which is the cadence of SoHO/MDI

  Posted September 5, 2015 10:25 AM

• by Mjtbarrett

  That should make it a LOT smoother when Els posts the Sunspotter Version then! Another first for Science! 😃 Many congratulations on exceeding the one million btw. :-0

  Posted September 5, 2015 10:45 AM

• by ElisabethB

  Here it is. 28 images, first one from 19/07/2004, last one from 27/07/2004. 😄

  http://makeagif.com/J5u1xp

  Posted September 5, 2015 11:34 AM

• by Mjtbarrett in response to ElisabethB's comment.

  Fabulous! Nice one ElisabethB! 😃 😃 Great fun. #dailyzoo

  Posted September 5, 2015 12:07 PM

• by jules in response to ElisabethB's comment.

  Excellent! I love this. 😄

  This was a persistent beast. I just checked its progress and it seems to have first appeared as AR 0652 on the far side on 9 July 2004 and survived for 2 full rotations (second time around as AR 0661) before it finally disappeared around 28 August 2004.

  And apparently it wasn't the biggest sunspot group on the sun at that time either! AR 0649 (or AR 0656 in some sources) was. I'll be looking out for the big one now - your next project maybe? 😉

  

  Posted September 5, 2015 4:06 PM

• by ElisabethB in response to jules's comment.

  Tx for the start and end dates for our "creepy guy". 😄

  I actually found 3 images from 18 and 19 August, but I didn't include them because a) I was not sure they were for the same set of sunspots and b) there is quite a big gap (27/07 - 18/08).

  Posted September 5, 2015 8:57 PM

• by dvdgc13 translator, scientist

  I'm really fascinated with all your work!! @ElisabethB that gif looks great!!

  @jules nice finding! I'll have to find and post here which one is the biggest one... so we can compare whether it has such an "ugly" face. In this case this sunspots produced 98 flares(!) - 90 in the first pass, and 8 more in the next one.
  Here is the list of them.

  Posted September 6, 2015 9:23 PM

• by ElisabethB in response to dvdgc13's comment.

  Wow creepy guy was really very busy! 😄

  Posted September 7, 2015 7:02 PM

• by jules

  Thanks @dvdgc13 - that was certainly some active region! And it looks like I was wrong and creepy guy (AR 0652) might win.

  I think these sunspot area measurements are for the 2 regions at their biggest (from solarmonitor.org):

  AR 0652 is 1840 / 1730

  AR 0656 is 1320 / 0990

  Are these units millionths of the visible solar hemisphere?

  Posted September 10, 2015 12:22 AM