One of three gorgeous large active regions on the sun today... this is AR1263. Active regions 1260 was also captured on July 30th.

The full solar disk with a parade of active regions can be seen here.

July 30, 2011/ captured with the Astro-Physics 10" mak/cassegrain and full aperture white light filter at f14.6, PGR Scorpion camera.

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