you are probably just looking at the wrong time, we are probably a year or two from solar max. The last solar max every time you looked there were a lot of spots and prominences. Hopefully we will be near maximum during the 2012 eclipse.
I am either an unskilled solar observer or someone is in error when
talking about large spots on the sun recently. I have not seen any spots on the sun for months and then only once. For June and July I saw no flares either.
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