Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, November 15, 2017.
The sky was mostly clear with slight air turbulence making the seeing and transparency average at the time these images were taken.
Solar activity remains at very low to low levels over the past 24 hours as expected. In spite the presence of AR2687, the Sun continues on its quiet state with no significant flaring activity recorded. The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 13. Several tiny prominences on the limbs and filaments were well-defined on the Sun’s disk 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)