SolarMonitor, hosted at the Solar Physics Group, Trinity College Dublin and at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC):Solar Update: C-Class flare activity continues on Friday around Sunspots 1290, 1295, 1296 and 1297. There will remain the chance for M-Class flares throughout the weekend.A new Sunspot group is forming in the southern hemisphere and should be numbered 1299 on Friday.
Sunspot Count: Because of the amount of sunspot regions on the face of the sun, the official Sunspot number count for Sept 15 is 167. This is a new record for Cycle 24 and beats the previous mark of 153 set on 4/13/2011.
22 C-Class flares in 2 days:
Events not associated with currently named NOAA regions: C1.8(08:07)
LASCO Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) is one of a number of instruments aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite (SOHO). LASCO consists of three solar coronagraphs with nested fields of view