Solar activity is at very low levels over the past 24 hours. AR2880 (Axx/alpha) continues to gradually decay in structure while approaching the NW limb; almost barely visible in white-light imagery. On the other hand, the larger AR2882 (Cso/beta) exhibited a minuscule change in its unipolar leader spot with a single pore beside it. Space weather agencies recorded a C5.5-class solar flare in the early morning hours of Oct. 7. The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 23.

Nothing much significant going on with the Sun lately aside from some small quiescent prominences at the NE and SW limbs, the enhanced plages associated with the upper-mentioned sunspot groups, and several elongated stable filaments across the Sun’s disk as distinctively captured in H-alpha imagery.

Space weather agencies* expect low solar activity to persist with the likelihood of flaring activities not exceeding C-class levels in the next few days. Close monitoring is being conducted by numerous space weather agencies for any significant development.

Equipment used are Skywatcher 120mm refractor telescope with Baader filter and unmodified Canon EOS 1D Mark IV DSLR camera for visible imagery. For H-alpha imagery, the equipment used are Lunt 60mm H-alpha solar telescope, and QHYCCD 290III mono camera; all mounted on Skywatcher EQ6 pro mount Pre-processing of visible solar images was performed in PIPP, stacking in Autostakkert, slight wavelet adjustments in Registax 6, and post-processing in Adobe Photoshop CC.