The Sun 12-5-08 - New AR flares 10 times in 8 hours!

A new active region is coming around the east limb and announced itself by flaring 10 times in eight hours producing a number of visible Class A flare proms on the limb. I had pretty poor seeing for photography, but OK for visual. Using the GOES X-Ray flux graphs we could see when the flare proms were developing then race outside to view and photograph them. I caught three of the flares and some of the other smaller proms on the north limb in the images below.......

The 9.31 UT flare prom

The 9.50 UT flare prom

The 12.27 UT flare prom

North limb with disconnected prom