Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, May 11, 2018.
The sky was clear with light air turbulence making the seeing and transparency good at the time these images were taken.
Solar activity remains at very low levels over the past 24 hours. The lone visible sunspot group AR2708 exhibits not much change in sunspot structure. Possessing a single-spot (alpha) magnetic configuration, it did not produce any significant flaring activity throughout the monitoring period. The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 11. Several plages associated with AR2709 and former active regions, some filaments and prominences were distinctively captured in H-alpha imagery.
Space weather agencies* forecast solar activity to remain at very low levels with chances of weak X-ray fluxes or flares ranging up to B-class intensity. The extent of the frequency and intensity of the Sun’s activity will highly depend on the magnetic flux fluctuations happening in the visible ARs in the coming days. Close monitoring is being conducted by numerous space weather agencies for any significant development.
*Technical reports courtesy of Solar Influence Data Center (SIDC), NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA-SWPC)
