I agree with COLGeek, *impressive* image. The article says "While the image of this sunspot measures only a small portion of the sun, at just 10,000 miles (16,100 kilometers) across it's large enough that the Earth could easily fit inside. Looking at the sunspot, you'll notice a dark center that looks like it feathers out into the brighter outside."
Starry Night shows the Earth-Sun distance today ~ 0.984 au. This sunspot ~ 23 arcsecond size, so easy to observe in smaller telescopes. I last viewed the sunspots on 26-Nov when three larger groups were there, Sunspot AR2786, AR2785, AR2783 as reported at spaceweather.com. AR2790 is moving around the sun, another one is appearing today. My glass white light solar filter provides good views, h-alpha filters do even better but this new solar telescope is great!
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