By Cecille Kennedy | 2024-07-08
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![Community photo entitled unique sunspot by Patricio Leon on 07/09/2024 at Santiago, Chile](https://ecp.earthsky.org/upl/gravity_forms/6-d613a712aa1020729eb530187e1fe51d/2024/07/IMG_0006.T.85.jpg)
unique sunspot
On 07/09/2024 10:39 am by Patricio Leon| Santiago, Chile
some scattered medium size sunspots appeared in the midle sector of the eastern limb, not what expected indeed; on the other hand, AR3738 continues to extend, now it is 12 Earths wide and the western core has grown big enough so as to be observable with protected eye alone; the closeness of this spot to the sun equator is striking even more
considering the 4° shift of the latitude grid to the south
newt 4.5"+ solar film, 1/640s ISO100
crop, B/C