My first solar session of the year! Here’s a close up of the sun from the 16th. Rather poor attempt at making a mosaic but some interesting prominences and sunspots around the edge. I am writing this on 2 June as a cold front sweeps across the UK so I don’t think we’ll be seeing any today, alas!
After setting up, I wondered why I could hardly see a thing on the laptop screen at my normal settings and needed exposures of 800 milliseconds with huge gain to capture anything meaningful. I then realised I still had the 742nm pass filter from my lunar session, d’oh!
The seeing was pretty poor and not helped by passing cumulus clouds causing a break in play.
![Sun in Hydrogen Alpha with close up of Prominences and Sunspots](http://www.refreshingviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Sun-20150516-300x266.jpg)
![Large Prominence at 12 o'clock](http://www.refreshingviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/prom-2-300x278.jpg)