The other day, when I found out that the giant sunspot cluster Active Region 1339 was coming around the Sun's limb, one of the first things I did was email Alan Friedman and ask if he had plans to get pictures of it. His images of the Sun have graced this blog many times before (see Related Posts, below), and I knew he'd get a great shot. A little while later he sent me the picture I posted yesterday, and I added the Earth to it for comparison. I didn't like defacing his picture, but I thought putting our Earth there lent it some scale. So just now I got another note from him: he told me he had created a full disk image of the Sun, and when I saw it, well, wow:
Yeah, wow. [Click to gdwarfenate.] You can see the sunspots cluster to the right of center ...
