🌞 🧐 Sun activity for October 22, 2023. Time for a cap nap - Looking at today’s sun, you wouldn’t think solar maximum is so near at hand. But it is; it’s due in the mid-2020s. 😮 Over the past day, we saw only three flares, four small active regions, and no filament eruptions on the Earth-facing side. And yet, if you look more closely at the Sun, the signs of its impending maximum are there.🤔 Observing the sun in white light, magnetic field, 304 angstroms and 171 angstrom wavelengths (see the