[rat156]

Hi All,

I set up today to take some picture of AR1041 and was quite disappointed with its size, quite small, not what I expected at all.

It turns out I was imaging the wrong area of the sun, a new active region and sunspot have emerged. I'll let the experts tell me if this is indeed deserving of a sunspot designation, but I reckon it is, so I'll call it sunspot 1042.

Pictures below are matched to the SOHO orientation. An almost full solar disk is being processed (by AVIStack), but will be a little while yet.

Cheers
Stuart