Below, today’s H-alpha image shows dramatic prominences along the NE and NW solar limbs. There are also prominences along the SE and SW limbs.

The corresponding sunspot image shows three active regions that we didn’t see in yesterday’s image – AR4246, -48, and -49.

Along the NE limb is a massive arc of sun stuff soaring high above the chromosphere. The NW limb shows large albeit less dramatic prominences.


In the southern hemisphere we have these smaller prominences. In the SE, we see spicules and plumes high above the chromosphere.

