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Community photo entitled All of these Sunspots are Stable by Victor Rogus on 03/10/2026 at Sedona, Arizona, USA

All of these Sunspots are Stable

On 03/10/2026 09:30 am by Victor Rogus | Website | Sedona, Arizona, USA

There are six, numbered sunspot groups on the solar disk this morning, yet none of them have an unstable magnetic field and none are likely to explode. NOAA forecasters say there is no more than a 1% chance of X-flares on March10th.
Therefore, all of these sunspots do indeed have stable magnetic fields that pose little threat for strong solar flares.

103mm Jagers refractor, Badder Planetarium safety prism, using neutral tensity and a solar continuum filter, Losmandy GM-8 mount. Cannon 60Da camera. 650 FL 25 mm eyepiece.