Simac

By Simac

From the left...

Nice and clear first thing this morning but as the Sun was low in the sky the seeing was far from ideal. This composite has the main image taken with my Fuji HS10 bridge camera and the larger images of the spot groups taken with the cmos camera on my telescope.
From the left on the full disc image are AR1884, AR 1885, AR1882, AR 1886, AR1879 and AR1877. The larger scale images are top left 1884 and just below it 1885. bottom left 1882 and far right 1879 and 1877. There is no large scale image of AR1886 because the seeing was so bad it was difficult to tell the spots from the general background.
AR1884 is of most interest at the moment as it is growing quite rapidly and has a complex magnetic field that contains energy for X class flares. The CME sparked by 1882's eruption on Tuesday will be with us tomorrow although NASA are predicting only a 25% chance of polar geomagnetic storms from it.

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