This practice sometimes leads the novice to harbor greatly inflated expectations concerning how large an object should appear through a telescope. Much detail is often visible upon careful inspection of a relatively tiny image. Notice the limb darkening around the edge of the sun. This effect was an early indication that the sun generates much of its light from deep beneath its apparent surface. Notice also the two 'belts' of sunspots parallel to the solar equator.
Sunspots tend to appear at latitudes of greatest differential rotation.
The 'sunspot belts' bear a slight resemblance to Jupiter's equatorial cloud belts. Notice also the lighter, hotter faculae near the solar limb at similar latitudes as the sunspots. These lighter areas indicate active regions where sunspots are likely to appear.