Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, August 14, 2018.

The sky was mostly clear with light air turbulence making the seeing and transparency good at the time these images were taken.

Relatively quiet solar activity over the past 24 hours. In spite of that, a single sunspot was seen developing at the encircled location. This will be closely monitored for its progress and its possible effect on solar activity in the next few days. No significant flaring activity was recorded. The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 1.  Few prominences at the limbs including a huge eruptive hedgerow one at the north-northwest limb, as well as some plages regions and filaments across the disk 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. 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)