Shout out to whoever is still responsible for making these beautiful hand-drawn synoptic charts of the sun every day for NOAA. Just stumbled across this page today.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-synoptic-map

Solar Synoptic Map | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

@russss
Looks like a full archive going back to the 1970s! Wow.

(Now I'm wondering what they'd look like as a timelapse...)