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Monty Leventhal OAM
Oct 6, 20202 min read
Solar Observations: September 2020
Monty's Solar observations : we now appear to be in deep minimum!
Monty Leventhal OAM
Sep 4, 20202 min read
Solar observations: August 2020
For the month of August 2020 Sunspot activity was quite low during my observations with only five spot groups observed, most were single...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Aug 3, 20202 min read
Solar Observations: July 2020
JULY 2020... The Bureau of Meteorology has not yet released its July 2020 report, however, there was 183 mm of rainfall in Sydney (the...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Jul 17, 20202 min read
Solar Observations: June 2020
Monty has been observing regularly but over the past few months his reports have not been happy ones because the Sun has not been very...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Solar Observations: January 2020
Sunspot activity for the month of January remained extremely low however, on the 3rd January a single Axx spot was observed of the new...
George Mavrocordatos
Nov 23, 20191 min read
Annular Solar Eclipse of 26 Dec 2019
On Boxing day this year there will be an annular eclipse which will be a surprise to many. Even though I am a keen amateur astronomer,...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Nov 15, 20192 min read
Solar observations: October 2019
Sunspot activity on the Sun is now proving to be very rare as the Solar Cycle 24 is now at minimum. Not one Sunspot was observed by me...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Oct 14, 20191 min read
Solar observations: September 2019
Sunspot activity for the month of September remained extremely low however, on the 1st September two very small Bxi spots were observed...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Sep 30, 20192 min read
Solar Observations: August 2019
Coronal Holes were observed at the end of July, beginning of August by Space Weather.com - these are shown in the image above from NASA's...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Solar Observations: July 2019
For the month of July, 2019 and during my 21 days of solar observations I did not see any Sunspot activity. The only activity that was...
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