The sun is currently fairly blemish-free, except for one group of three rather large individual spots. There's another group that will be rotating into view soon, you can just see it on the solar limb. I'm going to hurry and get out the PST before "Hell's Kitchen" and "Master Chef" come on. May have to abandon the "Big Bang Theory" re-run, lol. I've seen it already. But Gordon Ramsay is my preferred summer TV entertainment, par excellence. "Donkey!" lol. I dream of Beef Wellington...drool...but promises of prominences await... Just before the Venus transit, I replaced the Baader film on my home-made 50mm solar refractor. The film lasted some 12 years, and the biggest reason I replaced it was dust, not pinholes. Had I been more careful in my storage practices, the first film installation would still be in-use. Glad it's only a 50mm aperture and my big sheet of film didn't take much of a hit. I own several glass solar filters, by different manufacturers, including TO and Celestron. I used none of them for the eclipse or the transit. Baader film consistently gives the best visual views, IMHO. More detail, better contrast, and no fakey orange, green, or blue tints. The tints just reduce the contrast.