It was mostly cloudy this afternoon, which means that there were some periods when the sun was minimally obscured by clouds. I tried to make some solar observations during those periods. I have chosen the best stack of ~96 frames from one of three AVI videos that I made. The individual frames were 5ms exposures with the camera gain set to 150 of a max possible gain of 255. The lower the gain setting, the less sensor noise in the image. Everything is a compromise.
The solar disk looked like this:
You will probably notice that I have tinkered with the tint and saturation of the image so that the sun looks more golden and less pink than it is in earlier images. Many of the best NASA images have a similar tonal sensibility. On the Eastern Limb (left of the disk’s edge) there is a large jet emanating from a solar prominence. On the Northwestern limb, there is a fainter jet that is broader.
Below are the major sunspot groups that can be seen in the image above. Their order is from West to East (groups appearing right to left on the sun’s disk).
The two big prominence jets are highlighted below.
The jet from the Western limb appears as a faint plume mid-frame. The jet on the Eastern limb is more obvious.