This brings me to my recommendation and please, this is only a recommendation if you can accommodate it. In most night-time astrophotography we don't really worry too much about which way is "up". But in solar imaging, especially if you like to follow active regions across the disk over multiple days, it's really helpful if you try and orient your camera and capturing software so that North is up. It's really simple to do if you are using a scope and separate camera. Simply open up SpaceWeather.com and look at the solar disk image on the left column. You can click on it and make it full screen. Then, before you start capturing your data, rotate the camera until your view of the sunspots sort of line up with the view shown on the website. It doesn't have to be perfect, just get it roughly lined up. If you image over multiple days you will be able to see and understand the rotation of the surface of the Sun a bit better. Due to different types of scopes, reflectors and refractors or using a diagonal or not, you may then need to flip the image in your capture software. I feel like most of us use SharpCap for this and in the column under camera controls there is an option to flip the camera view horizontally or vertically or both. Do whatever it takes to line up your image.
Here's a sample of the image from SpaceWeather.com and my latest image. the rotation is not 100% perfect but it does make it much easier to identify active regions on the Sun.
This is not a plug for SpaceWeather.com. There are many professional sources such as:
https://www.solarmonitor.org/
https://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/
https://gong2.nso.edu/products/tableVie ... hAlpha.cfg
Again, this is just a friendly suggestion. Afterall, you would post a pic of your pet like this, would you?
