Sunspots are back!

I read yesterday that sunspots are back after a several year hiatus, so this morning I set up the ETX-70 with its solar filter and got a look at my first sunspot in quite awhile. It was tiny with a tail, like a tadpole. I believe this is sunspot 1263 that has been in the news the last few days and has caused some nice aurora activity in northern Minnesota and other northern states. It's at about 11:00 in the image shown here. I shot this with my Sony point-and-shoot held up to the eyepiece so the spot is a bit fuzzy. I was pleased to be able to see it at all! It was a good thing I looked when I did because a few minutes later, a big cloud covered the sun for most of the rest of the day.
The past few nights with the exception of last night, have been pretty good and I've enjoyed watching Vesta march its way across Capricorn. The moon is about at 1st quarter tonight and there were clouds by Capricorn. If conditions are right when the moon leaves us again, I'll have to check out Vesta and Ceres which is supposed to be in the neighborhood as well.