Today was clear, but seeing the sun the next few days will be difficult. Today’s H-alpha solar disk show’s a few scattered plages and filaments as well as some loop prominences along the southeastern and southwestern limbs. There’s an arc of solar plasma separated from the solar disk on the eastern limb.
In the annotated sunspot image below, AR3950 is fading and AR3953 has almost disappeared over the western limb. A large, new sunspot region is emerging along the northeastern limb. I have tentatively designated AR3957 since today’s NASA image didn’t provide a designation.
Today’s loop prominence cameos appear below.
I captured an overexposed H-alpha video that reveals an arc of solar plasma high above the chromosphere. The image below shows the same region as the leftmost image above.
