Sunspot number 243 today

[Nik271]

The sun looks very interesting today, speckled with multiple sunspots. I had a look with my 70mm ED F/6 with a Lunt wedge and then a Quark. The Ha view is also very attractive, there were a couple of small C-class flares from AR 3639 while I observed. 

There are 15 sinspot groups and the Wolf sunspot number is 243. We are probably near the solar maximum!

Edited April 20 by Nik271

[Alan White]

Lucky you Nik, you can see the Sun, Its clouded out here.
So thank you for sharing what has been seen, I will look online for images later on.

 

[Roy Challen]

I got a brief look in this morning, lots of sunspots visible, a couple of small proms, but didn't see any flaring.

[C6rrules]

Dodged clouds for an hour to get this , just gone bananas ! 
Nick

[sheffieldsunwatcher]

I saw what I took to be a flare this morning - a much more intensely bright and whiter spot near the largest of the sunspot areas, which had disappeared when I looked again at the sun a relatively short time later. (I'm new to solar observing so I need to get on top of the 'c class' etc. classifications!) There were numerous impressive sights, but then unfortunately the clouds started rolling in...   

[IB20]

Spotted one about 20-30 mins ago, just above the large cluster of ARs 3645/47. Small but extremely bright.

[Ags]

There is a lovely group I was hoping to photograph, but my laptop won't boot 🤨

Still, a lovely view in the eyepiece.

[C6rrules]

Here’s Carrington’s flare sketch , so you know what to look out for , Nick