No spots were visible on the Sun today. All I could see was some slight darkening around where active area 900 should have been.

It took me quite a while to find active area 900 today — at first I thought it had totally disappeared. However, after a short while I managed to find it but all of the spots appeared to have faded a lot. I could just about count 5 spots in the area.

Active area 900 was still visible I could only count 4 spots today (down 1 from yesterday. The whole group also seems to appear like it's faded a little when compared to yesterday.

Active area 900 was still visible and, just like yesterday, I could count 5 spots in the area. Two of the spots appeared slightly darker than yesterday's observation.

At around 09:00 UT I initially noticed a bright and colourful partial halo around the Sun. I grabbed my mobile phone and, with the camera in it, took this image:

Over the course of the next 90 minutes or so the cirrus cloud seemed to get thicker and spread out more. During this time the halo appeared to lose colour but also to grow in size:

After a little bit of effort I noticed that active area 900 was visible. Within it I managed to count 5 spots. All were very small.