Sunpots are relatively scarce at the moment, but there are some impressively-large prominences visible.
These images were obtained yesterday (22 Oct) with a Lunt LS50THa double-stacked hydrogen-alpha scope and an ASI178mm camera.
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| false-color image. The over-exposed disk is masked off. |
The diameter of the sun is 109 times larger than the earth. This next image gives a good impression of the relative sizes of these prominences compared to the Earth-Moon system:
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| The two white circles represent the Earth and Moon. |
And here is an image of the full disk:
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