February 7 Sunspot Activity

One of my club colleagues advised us of sunspot activity today, and I viewed it with a small solar projection device (marketed under the name "Sunspotter"). I'm attaching a picture of my view, taken at about 2:00 pm PST on February 7 (2200 Universal Time).

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Herbert:

I was just out looking at the sunspots. It's about 4pm here in San Diego on Monday the 8th of February. I am using an 80mm F/11 Meade/Mizar with a Thousand Oaks filter.

There is quite a nice string of sunspots.

One end of the string has 5 larger spots that remind me of the head of Draco, the largest spot at that end has a tail of a few small spots.

The string winds a bit and there is one larger one near the middle and the it continues to a final larger spot. The small spots in the string are hard to resolve, the sun is low now but I would guess there must be at least 20 of them.

Jon