Monthly archives: június, 2026

A solar flare in neutral carbon

The flare’s dark imprint is at the bottom left corner of the „bright” sunspot, on this continuum subtracted image

On 2026-06-24, I observed the flare that occurred and peaked at around 0710Z, in the neutral carbon lines C I 9095 and C I 9112. Both darken subtly when the flare is present, just like oxygen does. But unlike with oxygen, which has an obvious chromosphere, I failed so far to identify anything meaningful for these carbon lines.

 

 

Also much like the oxygen, sunspots show excess light, while plages show a deficit, the disk being overall rather dull in comparison to neighboring continuum lines.

An interesting factor when processing these pictures is that the reference lines land on tellurics, and hence the solar lines doppler visibly as we scan from solar west to east.

The flare is at the big „bright” sunspot, bottom left.

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Prominences in neutral iron

I observed the Sun in multiple wavelengths, recording spectroheliograms in Sr II 4077, Fe I 4383, and spectra in the UV — no disks, because of the clouds. Always the mandatory clouds.

Fe I 4383

If I identified the lines correctly

Sr II 4077 delta1

Sr II 4077 delta1

Sr II 4077 division

Sr II 4077 division

Sr II 4077 delta2

Sr II 4077 delta2

Sr II 4077 continuum at 11 pixels distance

Sr II 4077 continuum at 11 pixels distance

Sr II 4077 line reconstruction

Sr II 4077 line reconstruction


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