Not seen the star they call the sun for a while now...
Aye, it's been awful ... from Sep 20th to Oct 2nd (inclusive) approx. 30 mins sunshine total. A bit more than that yesterday but I wasn't able to use it as it was in short pieces between heavy showers & the Northerly gale was strong enough to make sea spray a serious problem between the showers.
A bit better today, still some showers around but a lot less wind and the clear intervals are long enough to be useful.
There is little activity on the disc. Blank in white light, just a thin remnant of AR1026 right on the western limb visible in CaK and Ha. But the prominences are really good; there is a very large, bright "hedgerow" on the NW limb and numerous small prominences, some fairly bright, right round the limb. Transparency good (between drifting clouds), seeing moderate to poor.
2009 Oct 04, 1144 UT, PST CaK @ f/10
2009 Oct 04, 1153 UT, Solarscope SV60 @ f/8
2009 Oct 04, 1158 UT, Solarscope SV60 @ f/32
2009 Oct 04, 1200 UT, Solarscope SV60 @ f/32