December 28, 2013

A couple sunspots towards the left edge of the Sun's disc.  Photo taken this afternoon.

December 18, 2013

A few medium-sized sunspots visible.

December 3, 2013

Follow-up on previous posting.

November 30, 2013

A few sunspots but less prominent than before.  Photo taken November 30, 2013.

November 21, 2013

One good-sized sunspot and a smaller sunspot observed today.

November 14, 2013

Several sunspots visible today.

November 4, 2013

Several smaller sunspots visible while the two big sunspots are nearing the edge of the solar disc.

October 30, 2013

Pretty much the same sunspots as a few days ago, albeil rotating with the Sun.

October 28, 2013

I think the Sun is even a little more active than in my previous posting four days ago.

October 24, 2013

A lot more sunspot activity today than my previous posting!

October 7, 2013

Photo shows one medium sunspot on the Sun's disc.  I used my Barska 70-mm refractor for this photo.

October 2, 2013

I used my Meade ETX-125 and my FujiFilm Finepix HS20 EXR digital camera to take this photo today  that shows a cluster of sunspots near the center of the disc and another spot near the lower right edge.  This is after hearing reports of aurora sightings from the top of Mt. Washington, NH on the news.

September 24, 2013

One medium-sized spot observed.

September 20, 2013

Again, a couple sunspots observed visually but using my Meade ETX-125 telescope.

September 18, 2013

A couple sunspots were observed visually - one near the center, the other near the left limb of the Sun's disc.

September 8, 2013

A very quiet Sun!

September 4, 2013

I observed a couple sunspots using my Barska 70-mm refractor this afternoon.

August 25, 2013

Today, there are two sunspots visible - one near the edge of the disk on the lower diagonal right of center, the other sunspot almost directly opposite.  I used my Meade ETX-125 telescope for this photo.

August 24, 2013

One sunspot found but this photo was taken near the end of the day with my smaller 70-mm Barska telescope.

August 20, 2013

About five sunspots photographed today using my Meade ETX-125 telescope. 

August 14, 2013

A couple medium-sized sunspot groups were observed today in the late afternoon using my Barska 70-mm refractor.

August 12, 2013

Sunspot activity increased considerably since my previous post.

August 7, 2013

Just one sunspot found visually using my Meade ETX-125 telescope with 40 mm eyepiece.

August 5, 2013

One or two sunspots detected visually using my Barska 70-mm telescope.  I tried my stronger 6.8 mm focal length eyepiece as well as the 20 mm focal length eyepiece I usually use on that telescope. 

Sun image using 20 mm eyepiece

Sun image using 6.8 mm eyepiece

August 1, 2013

Three sunspots were observed visually this morning using my Meade ETX-125 telescope.  Only one of those sunspots were observed two days ago with my Barska 70-mm telescope.

July 30, 2013

Just one small sunspot observed visually.

July 16, 2013

A couple of small sunspots observed visually.

June 22, 2013

Several sunspots visible today.  I found it a little difficult to maintain focus of my telescope on the image  because of convection currents given that today is a very warm and rather humid summer day.

June 12, 2013

Just a couple of very small sunspots found.

May 27, 2013

A couple sunspots this morning.

May 16, 2013

Two big spots and at least a couple smaller spots as seen from my Meade ETX-125 telescope.  I posted the photo larger than usual to make the smaller sunspots easier to see.

May 15, 2013

A couple spots visible as seen from my Barska 70-mm refractor.

May 5, 2013

Sun just as active as in my previous posting.  Photo taken at about 5 PM EDT.

May 2, 2013

Photo from my bigger telescope today.

May 1, 2013

Sun even more active than my previous posting and the image shown is from my smaller Barska 70mm refracting telescope!

April 26, 2013

Considerable sunspot activity today with a sunspot near the center of the disc and a group of sunspots towards the right limb.

April 17, 2013

A couple sunspots visible today.

April 9, 2013

Sun more active than my previous posting three days ago with sunspots enlarging.

April 6, 2013

Large sunspot again easily seen in the photo taken in the afternoon on April 6, 2013 using my Meade ETX-125 Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope and my Canon PowerShot SX10IS camera.  I also found three smaller sunspots in the photo.  More detail can be seen in the larger sunspot and more smaller spots can be seen because this telescope has a 127mm aperture and 1900 mm focal length.

April 5, 2013

Large sunspot again easily seen in the photo taken in the afternoon on April 5, 2013 using my Barska 70mm f5.7 refractor telescope and my Canon PowerShot SX10IS camera.  One or two smaller sunspots may also be seen in the photo.

April 3, 2013

Large sunspot easily seen in the photo taken in the late afternoon on April 3, 2013 using my Barska 70mm f5.7 refractor telescope and my Canon PowerShot SX10IS camera.

March 23, 2013

No sunspots visible today.

February 22, 2013

A few small sunspots visible today.

February 7, 2013

Same two sunspots as those seen three days ago.  Note effect of solar rotation.

February 4, 2013

One or two sunspots today.

January 26, 2013

Fairly quiet Sun - just one small sunspot evident.

January 14, 2013

Several good-sized sunspots visible.

January 6, 2013

Several small sunspots scattered across the solar disc today.