Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, November 14, 2018.
The sky was mostly clear with to light air turbulence making the seeing and transparency good at the time these images were taken.
Exhibiting a single-spot (Modified Zurich/Mcintosh: Axx/alpha) configuration, the lone visible sunspot group AR2726 was overall inactive throughout the 24-hour period; did not produce any significant flaring activity. The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 11. H-alpha imagery reveals few eruptive and quiescent prominences at the opposite (northwestern and south-southeastern) limbs and the small plage associated with AR2726.
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.
Equipment used are Skywatcher 120mm refractor telescope with Baader filter and unmodified Canon EOS 1D Mark IV DSLR camera for visible imagery and Lunt H-alpha solar telescope for H-alpha imagery, mounted on Skywatcher EQ6 Pro. 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.