Sunspot group with hundred sunspots

 Sunspots are organized in groups (or active regions). On average, active regions have only about 6-8 sunspots, but sometimes there are groups with much more sunspots. Sunspot drawing from the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak Observatory taken 2 Sep. 1959 shows two groups with 81 and 93 sunspots. Early this week, an active region with about hundred sunspots was observed by GONG (see colored image showing a zoomed-in portion of solar broaband image of the Sun taken by GONG/Big Bear station in California. GONG telescopes have relatively small aperture, and thus, some small sunspots may not be visible. Observations with larger aperture telescopes suggest that there were close to 100 sunspots in this active region.