Speckle masking imaging of pores in solar active region NOAA 9439

We present high resolution observations of a solar active region using speckle masking reconstruction technique. The data were recorded with a SMD 1M60 CCD camera using the 65 cm vacuum telescope at the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). The reconstruction procedures have been applied to a 39" x 39" region. The resolution of the images approaches the diffraction limit of the telescope, which is about 0.16.5" at 520 nm. We also obtained vectormagnetograms of the same region with the Digital Vector Magnetograph (DVMG) system at BBSO's 25 cm vacuum refractor. These high resolution observations are aimed at a better understanding of proper motions of small-scale structures in solar active regions and their relationship to the underlying magnetic field. We introduce a new system for near real-time image reconstruction and show as an example of its capabilities the evolution of a pore. The pore was located underneath an up-flow detected in Ha dopplergrams. At the end of the observations the pore fragmented into several magnetic knots.