Because of clouds and rain, it’s been several days since I’ve put up an image of the solar disk. Today the skies were partly cloudy, but it was possible to use the solar rig. I tried new focus settings, and I was rewarded with more detailed images of the structure of sunspots and their associated plages. The solar disk looked like this:
A pair of sunspots lies near the Western limb of the solar disk. Sunspots often occur in pairs – magnetic dipoles of solar activity, I think. There are smaller groups of sunspots across the face of the disk strewn from west to east.
Below are some sections of the disk magnified for better examination.
