Solar Region 10963
The region 10963 has been growing rapidly in size, number of spots, and complexity. (See http://www.raben.com/maps/EarthSideSolarRegions.html). NOAA has the area at 530 milli-hemispheres as of last evening which is around 1.6 billion square kilometers or about 3 times the entire surface area of the Earth (both land and sea).
Image was acquired with Celestron Nexstar11 telescope and Phillips Toucam 840K webcam 11:09 to 11:11 am MDT. Images were aligned, stacked, and wavelet sharpened with Registax4. The sky was mostly clear, 2-4 mph wind, some occasional high thin clouds, turbulence 6/10, temperature was 74°F, location was Louisville, CO.