emptiness

AR4409 said good-bye this morning emittting an M1-class flare right as it went over the western limb. It leaves then AR44425 as the lonely significant spot in the solar face. Orion spacecraft is gaining speed approaching Earth, now it advances at 1.5 km/s and prepares to reentry at some 22 hours from this moment

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

crop, b/c