the sun is in the billiard ball phase... no sunspots. It is featureless in normal camera view. If you look at it in UV light, it looks weird, gigantic black areas were the sun has ejected it's atmosphere into space. Only recently it flipped it's poles from a solar maximum to a minimum. They Believe using computer models that it might be returning to the 17th century output levels, we had a mini ice age, with the Thames being frozen over. they expect it to get bad around 2022 to 2035. i say wait and see. many a slip between cup and lip.