Today is the first day this week that the sky has been clear. We had 3″ of rainfall last night, and we are grateful for that. Today’s solar disk comparison images appear below.


The H-alpha image on the left shows complex prominences along the sun’s southeastern, southern polar, and northwestern limbs. These are emphasized in the cropped images below.



There are new sunspot groups that have emerged during those cloudy days when I could not do any solar photography. They appear in the annotated image below.
