All Quiet on the Solar Front

Yesterday, the daytime atmosphere proved to be quite stable. The video streams I took of the Sun were some of the best I have ever captured. Unfortunately, as far as the Sun was concerned, there wasn’t very much to look at. As we approach the next predicted solar minimum (2019-2020) in the Sun’s 11 year cycle the Sun presents fewer and fewer sunspots. As of today, the 29th, there have been 177 days without any sunspots visible at all. That’s more than half of the days so far this year. Yesterday was no exception.

The only visible break in the solar pattern were two very small filaments. The lower one persisted throughout the observing session. The upper one formed then dissipated within that time.
 
The images were taken through a Lunt 60mm H-Alpha scope using a Point Grey Flea3 camera. The imagery was captured with FireCapture and processed with AutoStakkert and Registax6.