Despite a forecast 15% probability of rain today, the afternoon was perfectly clear. Below are my solar images. Each image is a stack of 1000 frames – the best 30% of a 3000-frame AVI.
The first image shows very active solar prominences and one remarkable jet of material being ejected from the eastern solar limb.
The bright plage on the southeastern part of the disk, at about 8 o-clock, was the site a powerful solar flare early this morning. The larger prominences are highlighted below. Look carefully for the faint jet of ejected material in the first image below.
With the telescope’s filters tuned to highlight the sunspots, the sun looked like this.
The larger sunspot groups are shown below.
The sunspot near the eastern solar limb in the first image above did not have a designation at the time of this post.