Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, May 21, 2018.

The sky was clear but experienced intermittent moderate to fresh breeze making the seeing and transparency average to poor at the time these images were taken.
A new sunspot group was spotted to have rotated into Earth-view from the eastern limbs. As overall solar activity remains at its minimum, no significant flaring activity throughout the 24-hour monitoring period. The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 1. Few eruptive prominences and spicules at the limbs, as well a filament and the plage associated with the new sunspot group 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)