- May 11, 2022
- 1 min
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...
top of page
Skywatchers Blog posts
Did you know?
Search
Andrew Wood
- Oct 22, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
A Day in My Life of The Solar System
"I set out to observe as many Solar System objects as I could..."
Monty Leventhal OAM
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
Solar Observations: September 2020
Monty's Solar observations : we now appear to be in deep minimum!
Monty Leventhal OAM
- Sep 4, 2020
- 2 min
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...
bottom of page