Sunspot 4513 is Crackling!

As seen to me through clear skies, and as Spaceweather.com reports: Sunspot 4513 is crackling with M-class solar flares. Yesterday's M8-class explosion produced an impressive CME just outside our planet's strike zone. And now it poses a threat for even stronger X-flares. The sunspot is directly facing Earth, so any explosions on Aug. 25th will be geoeffective.

103mm Jaegers refractor, Baader Planetarium safety prism, using neutral density and a solar continuum filter, Losmandy GM-8 mount. Cannon 80D camera. 650 FL 25 mm Clave eyepiece. I am proud of this dedicated solar telescope as I made it myself around a used Jaegers objective lens, bought on e-bay that had damaged coatings. A Moon Lite focuser, a Baader Planetarium Herschel Wedge. It has become my favorite telescope for sunspots!