Marcel de Bont Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 It looks like a small sunspot region popped up at a remarkably high latitude on the Sun's far side. Not only is this likely a sunspot region that belongs to the new solar cycle 25, it also popped up inside the northern hemisphere polar coronal hole at a really really high latitude. I do not think I ever seen a sunspot region at such a high latitude before. Anyone else who can recall ever seeing a sunspot region at a similar latitude so close to the Sun's north pole? If it´s not a sunspot region, what else could it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 The highest observed sunspot region in the northern hemisphere up until now was AR11069 with an latitude of 42°! (and it even produced a M1.2 solar flare!). On the Southern Hemisphere we had two regions AR9518 and AR9523 that where on latitude of 50°! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 SC22 seems to have had a particularly high latitude region https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/bfly.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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