fading spots

sunspots are getting scarce as they are going over the western limb, the whole eastern hemisphere is empty of spots; Orion spacecraft is crawling towards the Moon at about 600 m/s, speed that will get higher tomorrow as it begins to feel its gravitational attraction and accelerates towards the programmed flyby

Newt 4.5" + solar film, 1/640s ISO100

crop, b/c