Another lull in the action from Mike and me.  Either weather or in my case weather and more smoke from another wild fire has prevented us from getting any images.  The solar activity has been way down but could be picking up a bit now. 

From Space Weather .com http://spaceweather.com/  -

AROUND THE BEND: Get ready for something new. An active sunspot may have announced itself just hours ago by hurling a massive plume of plasma over the sun's southeastern limb. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture on Oct. 16th at 1300 UT:

 It is too soon to say whether a CME is emerging from the blast site. Coronagraph data from SOHO are not yet available. However, even if the explosion did produce a CME, it is not heading for Earth. The instigating sunspot is still on the farside of the sun, more than 90^o off the sun-Earth line.

Hopefully Mike or I or both can catch some of this action.  We have come to feel an obligation to our viewers to keep the images coming and we will as soon as conditions permit.  :-)