At 1:38pm, there were a lot of sunspots (at least 7). There was one big sunspot and smaller sunspots in a crescent shape, going down the surface of the sun on the right side (from the 12 o'clock position to around the 4 o'clock position).
At 1:40pm, we began to notice a few solar flares in the lower half of the sun in a line that makes it seem like the sun has been cut in half.
At 1:45pm, there are solar flares shooting out of the surface of the sun, it appears. There is also two sunspots in the upper-middle of the sun, and one prominence in the lower left area of the sun (by 7 o'clock).
At 1:47pm, the crescent of sunspots were seen again, as well as 3 solar flare areas. These flare areas appear as a squiggly circle, a circle of flares that look like craters on the sun's surface. These areas are located in the upper left side of the sun (11 o'clock), the lower left side of the sun (8 o'clock), and the bottom part of the sun (6 o'clock).
At 1:48pm, more sunspots appeared. These sunspots are in the patter of a circle, around a solar flare crater. These are located in the middle of the sun's surface. At least 6 more spots appeared, and it appears to be a continuation of the sunspot crescent shape from earlier (1:38pm). This crescent shape has become almost a full circle, or rather, and ellipse.
By 1:50pm, the ellipse of sunspots appeared to have moved upward and to the right of the sun's surface. Where the solar flare was, is now a giant sunspot. Another solar flare circle is located at the very bottom right of the sun's surface area (5 o'clock). There are also about 4 giant lines of many sunspots grouped together, as part of this ellipse shape. Therefore, more sunspots have appeared.
And that was about all we could take. It was too cold for us to handle being outside any longer, even with my winter coat on.
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