Wednesday 19 September 2012

Full Disk Trio 19th September

full disk trio by Mark Townley
full disk trio, a photo by Mark Townley on Flickr.

As active regions 11569 & 11571 slowly head towards the suns western limb and out of view in the days ahead, they are replaced on the eastern limb by AR11575, however this is just the first of many and in the days ahead solar activity will increase significantly with flaring and auroral activity all definite possibilities. Now, all we need is clear skies to appreciate it...