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...

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...

The Sun is an important area of research. The European Space Agency launched the Solar Orbiter Mission which is returning images of the...

We all hoped that 2021 would start with solar activity to observe and get excited about. Monty Leventhal is a dedicated solar observer,...

"I set out to observe as many Solar System objects as I could..."

Monty's Solar observations : we now appear to be in deep minimum!

For the month of August 2020 Sunspot activity was quite low during my observations with only five spot groups observed, most were single...

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 has been observing regularly but over the past few months his reports have not been happy ones because the Sun has not been very...

Sunspot activity for the month of January remained extremely low however, on the 3rd January a single Axx spot was observed of the new...