Double Arched Flare from Sunspot 12673

Posted by Trebor49
on Thursday, September 14, 2017

After yet another X-class flare event, the sun gave up this beautiful looping double-arch flare from Sunspot 12673. It was a very bright flare. I was fortunate to capture it with my Lunt 80mm solar scope and a 2.5x Powermate before it passed on to the far side.

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