--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:

This one [Sunspot 758] is still impressive (looks kind of like a tear in the photosphere).

I don't know enough about solar dynamics to say if they are related, but Sunspot 758 - http://spaceweather.com/images2005/10may05/midi140.gif looks like it is growing at the intersection of two coronal holes - http://spaceweather.com/images2005/10may05/coronalhole_soho.gif - Canopus56 (Kurt) P.S. - I'd like to see any Sun after our local "Seattle spring." __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail