Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, September 21, 2017.

The sky was mostly clear but experienced light to freeze breeze, blowing some dust, making the seeing and transparency poor at the time these images were taken.

As expected, solar activity was at very low levels over the past 24 hours. Becoming more distinct as it further rotated towards Earth-view, the returned AR2676 has been re-designated as AR2681; only produced few weak B-class flares. On the other hand, the magnetically stable AR2680 remains inactive without any associated solar flaring activity recorded.

The latest sunspot number (based on visual count and Wolf number calculation) is 22.

Space weather agencies* forecast very low solar activity to continue with minimum solar flare activity, ranging up to C-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)