Thursday, September 6, 2012

Active Areas and Prominences

Today's image shows active areas and prominences on the sun.  Seeing was not very good today; there was lots of moisture and ripples in the atmosphere.  The active area towards the center is AR 1564, which is capable of producing M-Class flares.

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