Partly cloudy skies gave me a reasonable solar photoshoot today. Since my last images were on 07.18.25, the sun’s disk now shows almost all new active regions and prominences. The H-alpha image below shows numerous, delicate filaments on the solar disk, active prominences along the NE, SE, and NW solar limbs, and a few bright plages around the active regions.
There are only five active regions visible in my sunspot image today. The NASA SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) image shows eight including two on the western solar limb that had disappeared from view when I made my image. A third SDO image active region is too faint to see here.
The largest prominences appear in the gallery below. The NE and NW limb prominences show plasma streams and jets extending high above the chromosphere.
