March 30, 2012

I saw a report about another solar tornado on the Internet very recently. Such a report is found at

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57406945-76/massive-solar-tornado-caught-on-film/ .

Therefore, I took my telescope out this morning to check for sunspots. I found a fairly good sized one and took the photo shown above.

March 21, 2012

No sunspots found today but the abnormally warm/hot weather is continuing.

March 14, 2012

Note there is a group of spots on March 11, 2012 in photo on the left. Two of the remaining photos show a fairly large spot, both taken March 12, 2012. The remaining two photos, taken March 13, 2012, show no sunspots.

Photos taken March 11-13, 2012.

My SPF-120 Sun Blog

Blog of the Sun's activity in 2012 taken with one of my digital cameras using
one of my telescopes. The Sun is expected to attain sunspot maximum in 2013,
meaning that significant activity is expected during the June 5-6, 2012 Venus
transit and also around the end of the Ancient Mayan calendar on December 21,
2012.