[dragnet2]

Sunspot groups 1024 developed over the 4th of July weekend, and while it did not create any historically spectacular fireworks, it has been kicking up modest solar flares. Credit: SOHO/MDI

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090706-sunspot-activity.html

[xzins]

So, as this article seems to indicate, this is not the baddest of the sunspots ever?

[Squidpup]

Current SOHO images show nothing but the current 1024 -(I don’t know the current relative locations of the SOHO and the observational location from the story, and whether they would show something different)

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html