I was told some people here at astrophotography might be interested.

As part of the F-CHROMA project, a project designed to investigate flares in the chromosphere of the Sun, F-Hunter is looking for amateur astronomers to observe solar flares.

To take part follow this link

If you have a telescope, a solar filter (H-alpha, Ca-II-K or neutral density) and a camera (or any suitable CCD) then you could contribute to the F-CHROMA Flare-Hunters project. Even small telescopes (40mm) can observe faint C-class flares.

Basically, every day from now until the 27th September the project will post a daily target region of the Sun and ask that amateur astronomers around the world photograph that region as much as they can, process those images and then upload them.

They hope that these amateur images will fit into a worldwide campaign of ground and space based solar telescopes to help our understanding of flares. They have step-by-step guides on how to do the observations, process them and upload them to the project.

Your observations could help them out, or they could just be a good excuse to do some solar observing. If you do take part, share your images here!

For more info go to the F-Chroma page where there is just loads of good guides, presentations and info about the Sun and observing it. You can also follow F-Chroma on facebook and twitter for the daily targets.

As always, please take great care when observing the Sun.

NEVER look directly at the Sun.

NEVER use homemade solar filters on telescopes.

ALWAYS take care not to damage your filters when handling them and solar filters must only be placed over the front aperture, not over the eyepiece.