Well, with telescopes and projection onto paper, we saw ... venus, the black drop effect, some sun spots (it's a quiet time for sunspots too) and some faculae [that's the opposite of sunspots for those who don't know*], and the break up of the stable boundary layer at 9:15 (when the sun went from being clearly solid to shimmery at the edges).
* sunspots are colder regions of the solar atmosphere, so look dark, Faculae are hotter regions so are brighter and pale against the sun. Sunspot and faculae groups tend to occur in pairs, though not always close to each other. They show regions of convection where material of a different temperature to the sun's surface is being convected down from or up to the surface.
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Date: 2004-06-09 12:25 am (UTC)* sunspots are colder regions of the solar atmosphere, so look dark, Faculae are hotter regions so are brighter and pale against the sun. Sunspot and faculae groups tend to occur in pairs, though not always close to each other. They show regions of convection where material of a different temperature to the sun's surface is being convected down from or up to the surface.