Sun's unblemished face

The Hiram College astronomy class returned this morning to view the Sun through our telescope and its white light solar filter. On a good day we can see granulation in the solar atmosphere and detail in sunspots. Today was not a good day for while the sky was clear, seeing was only fair. Disappointingly we saw only the faintest traces of granulation and, as it has been for several days now, the Sun's face was unblemished by sunspots.