Our active Sun! July 2024
Sydney City Skywatchers member Garry Dalrymple has been observing sunspot activity lately with a small aperture telescope fitted with a...
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Toner Stevenson
Apr 15, 20233 min read
Ningaloo Solar Eclipse chasing
Toner Stevenson, vice president Sydney City Skywatchers, Saturday 15 April 2023. Experiencing a total solar eclipse is a spectacular and...
andrew14613
Jul 5, 20222 min read
Selected Solar Observations
by Monty Leventhal OAM June 2022 The first observation was made on the 3rd June due to bad weather and on that day four sunspot groups...
Andrew Wood
Oct 22, 20213 min read
Safe Solar Observing
by Andrew Wood Following a period of unusually low solar activity (the appearance on the Sun’s disc of sunspots), followers of Monty...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Sep 6, 20213 min read
Solar Observations: August 2021
By Monty Leventhal OAM IN SUMMARY Summing up, sunspot activity for solar cycle 25 has remained very low with Prominences & Filaments...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Jul 2, 20211 min read
Solar Observations: June 2021
Monty Leventhal OAM Summing up for the month of June 2021; Sunspot activity at the start of Cycle 25 once again has remained very low...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jun 18, 20213 min read
Winter Solstice
WHAT IS A SOLSTICE ? A solstice is a natural astronomical event during which one of the Earth’s hemispheres is at maximum tilt away from...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Apr 19, 20212 min read
Solar Observations: March 2021
The Sun is an important area of research. The European Space Agency launched the Solar Orbiter Mission which is returning images of the...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Mar 30, 20212 min read
Solar observations: Jan and Feb 2021
We all hoped that 2021 would start with solar activity to observe and get excited about. Monty Leventhal is a dedicated solar observer,...
Andrew Wood
Oct 12, 20206 min read
A Day in My Life of The Solar System
"I set out to observe as many Solar System objects as I could..."
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