Plenty of solar action this morning, AR 2835 has a wonderful plage display snaking its way around the region.
Also there are a few filaments, which can be just seen in the pictures, but easily spotted with the naked eye.
The Sun here is hot today, though nowhere near as hot as in some parts of the world.
My thoughts are with the people of the Pacific North West, who are experiencing temperatures as high as 46 Celsius at the moment !
A couple of prominences today, plus a very noticeable long filament, with sunspot group 2833 close by.
Seeing not good, and overall solar contrast low.
Difficult to pull out any detail with the IrfanView software.
I had a quick sol peep this morning, but not much prominence activity, as the above picture shows.
Skies were pretty well clouded out for the whole day.
Did manage to spot a lovely dark filament, though unfortunately failed to capture it on the camera.
Maybe tomorrow I will have better seeing conditions..... you can't win them all :-)
Happy Solstice...
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