Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, December 31, 2017.

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. No active sunspot regions currently exist on the Sun’s visible disk without any solar flare activity recorded. The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 0. No significant structural development was observed in the small plage/faculae region at the northeastern portion of the Sun’s visible disk (refer to previous post for reference). Tiny prominences were clearly 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)