By Laurie Engelhardt | 2026-01-12
Large New Sunspot
On 01/14/2026 10:27 am by Victor Rogus | Website | Sedona, Arizona, USA
As seen to me just now, a large yet unnamed sunspot over the sun's southeastern limb
Spaceweather.com reports: Solar activity is poised to increase with the emergence of a large and potentially explosive sunspot over the sun's southeastern limb. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is watching the sunspot group rotate over the edge.
We know this sunspot is active because it produced two significant CMEs in the past week. Both explosions occured while the sunspot was on the farside of the sun, so the flares and CMEs did not affect our planet.
Earth is now entering the strike zone, so future flares will be geoeffective.
103mm Jagers refractor, Badder Planetarium safety prism, using neutral tensity and a solar continuum filter, Losmandy GM-8 mount. Cannon 60Da camera. 650 FL 12.5 mm eyepiece.
Adjusted cantrast in Adobe.