Sunday, May 5, 2024

An Active Sun--May 5, 2024

 Solar activity continues to increase. Today, I was capturing images through breaks in what has been almost solid cloud. Below the full disk image is a crop showing AR 3633 to the right and AR 3664 to the left. AR 3633 is unleashing X-Class flares (the most powerful the Sun produces) and AR 3664 may start to flare soon!





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