Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, September 10, 2017.

The sky was clear but experienced intermittent light to moderate winds, making the seeing and transparency poor at the time these images were taken.

The large sunspot groups AR2673 and AR2674 are now departing from Earth-view as it rotates towards the Sun’s western limb. Some moderately-strong solar flaring activity associated with AR2673 was observed but it was not Earth-directed and will not significantly affect the Earth. The other small sunspot groups, decaying AR2678, AR2679, and the newly designated AR2680, the lone sunspot spotted at the eastern limb, possess stable magnetic configuration and were inactive without any significant solar flaring activity recorded.

The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 46.

With this stance, space weather agencies* forecast a slight tranquil in solar activity but shall remain moderate with chances of flares up to M-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.

*courtesy of Solar Influence Data Center (SIDC), NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA-SWPC)