On a very warm and humid evening around sunset, I decided to use the very hazy skies like a filter and attempt to shoot a few sunspots that are currently in transition. I shot the photo near Plymouth Iowa on July 31st with sunspots 1260, 1261 and 1263 showing on the face of the sun, along with a leading edge of some distance storms. ----------------------------------- According to spaceweather.com: EARTH-DIRECTED BLAST: Magnetic fields above sunspot 1261 erupted this morning at 0619 UT, producing a long-duration M1-class solar flare. At the peak of the action, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a surge of extreme ultraviolet radiation around the sunspot. The blast also hurled a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. This movie from NASA's STEREO-Ahead spacecraft shows the cloud racing away from the sun at almost 900 km/s. Geomagnetic storms are possible when the CME arrives on or about August 5th. --------------------------------- So for those living in the northern latitudes, keep alert for possible auroras in the coming nights.. thanks for viewing