Pete Lawrence wrote:

Hmmm - the Sun doesn't look terribly interesting at the moment. By
the time of the transit you could simply make your own by drawing a
featureless circle on a piece of paper and marking in a small black
dot.

Spot 621 - the only visible one on the image is fading apparently.

http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/sun_060604.jpg

Regular sun watching every day the Sun shines (ie irregular watching)
for the last couple of years, I've never seen it so empty. Much more
experienced observers than me have been surprised at how much life
there's been in the descent to minimum. We seem to have hit the bottom
with a bump just when some spots would have been really handy. The H-a
views have been getting quieter each day since I got the PST. As this
scope was 5 and a half months late, I suppose hundreds were delivered
on the same day, so I'm only taking a small fraction of the blame...

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