New Sunspots!

Ok, it’s not the greatest picture, but we still are dealing with the wind shaking the telescope. You can see a couple of sunspots from, though. These are spots associated with the new solar cycle, #24. Note their latitude. Sunspots early in a solar cycle will form at high latitudes at first. Later in the cycle, these spots will appear at lower and lower latitudes as the Sun’s magnetic field gets more and more twisted. More Sun pics are coming, but it will take me a while to work through the processing.

Sunspots from Solar Cycle 24
Sunspots from Solar Cycle 24

Faint prominences hovering above the chromosphere.
Faint prominences hovering above the chromosphere.

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