If you would like to know more about this current Solar Cycle 24, than please go NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre Solar Physics web page where you will find out everything you need to know about our amazing Star.
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml
My image was taken with a Canon 7D and Meade ED80 refractor telescope with a glass solar filter attached and 2x Barlow lens for more magnification, exposure 1/350th second, ISO 400, one single image.
I wanted to stack 12 images into Registack6 for more detail on the surface, but for some reason it would not accept my files…I will have to look into that matter later…