Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The Sun on June 15, 2022

 AR 3031 (in the middle of the large group of active areas left of and just below center), has a "beta-gamma" magnetic field and the potential to produce M-Class flares. The inverted image below was derived from a monochrome solar image colored blue in Affinity Photo, and then inverted. Inversion is a useful technique for showing very fine detail that might be missed on a non-inverted image.


Here's the positive image:



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