Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, March 29, 2019.

The sky was clear with intermittent light to moderate winds which provided good transparency and average seeing at the time these images were taken.

The Sun is in its spotless and generally quiet state since March 25, 2019 (when AR2736 departed from Earth-view). No significant flaring activity was recorded. The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 0.  Not much solar features visible except for few small quiescent prominences at the limbs as distinctively captured in H-alpha imagery.

Space weather agencies* forecast solar activity to remain at very low levels with chances of weak X-ray fluxes or flares ranging up to B-class intensity. Close monitoring is being conducted by numerous space weather agencies for any significant development.

Equipment used are Skywatcher 120mm refractor telescope with Baader filter and unmodified Canon EOS 1D Mark IV DSLR camera for visible imagery and Lunt H-alpha solar telescope and ZWO120MM CMOS camera for H-alpha imagery, mounted on Skywatcher EQ6 Pro. Pre-processing of visible solar images was performed in PIPP, stacking in Autostakkert, slight wavelet adjustments in Registax 6 and post-processing in Adobe Photoshop CC.

*Technical reports courtesy of Solar Influence Data Center (SIDC), NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA-SWPC)

Weather Data (4:45PM – 5:05PM, March 29, 2019):

Average Temperature: 31.1°C

Average Humidity: 14%

Average Wind Speed and Direction: 23.95 kph from northerly direction

Average Cloud Cover: 0%

Average Air Pressure: 1003.25 hpa

Average Solar Radiation: 238.985 W/m^2

Average UV Radiation: 540 µW/m^2 (low)