The sun is totally spotless today, at least at low and medium magnifications typical of the amateur arsenal. Those with higer-end gear may note some miniscule blemishes not seen at lower powers and resolution. YMMV. Figures, since SLAS has sun parties scheduled. "Look at the sun through safe, special telescopes! There's NOTHING to see but a blank disk!" LOL. Hopefully something will spring into life at any moment. Such is the life of an astronomical missionary (don't deny it. You know who you are). And the sun, *fortunately.* I did, however, watch a neat little loop prominence morph over a half hour or so, in the 7-o'clock position as seen through the PST on an alt-az tripod. Views through the white-light scope verified that there were absolutely NO sunspots visible, at least with a home-made refractor with 50mm aperture at 28X (16mm old-manufacture Japanese Erfle EP), using Baader filter material. The loop prominence morphed and changed during the 20 minutes or so that I watched it. There was also a small "spike" prominence visible, associated with the triple group that I posted about previously, but has now rotated beyond the solar limb. Kind of a wimpy solar max, if you ask me. At least today. Makes for dull sun parties, dammit, but those are the ones that bring out the club gossip, so all is not lost. ;-) That said, I'm still totally in-love with my PST. Probably one of the greatest astronomy products ever developed and sold to the mass-market. Even better since my ex-wife didn't get it, or demand via her lawyer that it be sold. Whew!