The high in Central Texas today reached 109F. Thankfully, I got to do my solar astrophotography earlier in the afternoon when it was only 105F.
Our old friend, sunspot group AR3784, whose coronal mass ejections (CME) brought us colorful auroras, has now gone around the bend, as it were. If it lasts another couple of weeks on the far side of the sun, we should get to see it re-emerge on the eastern limb.
New sunspot groups are emerging from the eastern limb, and there is a splendid solar prominence on the southeastern limb of the solar disk. The sun today looked like this:
Cropped views of the prominences show brisk solar activity along the eastern, southeastern regions as well as the south polar region.
Today’s major sunspot groups are highlighted below:
