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    Solar Observations: August 2021
    Monty Leventhal OAM
    • Sep 6, 2021
    • 3 min
    Solar Observing

    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...
    Solar Observations: March 2021
    Monty Leventhal OAM
    • Apr 19, 2021
    • 2 min
    Solar Observing

    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...
    Solar observations: Jan and Feb 2021
    Monty Leventhal OAM
    • Mar 30, 2021
    • 2 min
    Solar Observing

    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,...
    Solar Observations: September 2020
    Monty Leventhal OAM
    • Oct 6, 2020
    • 2 min
    Solar Observing

    Solar Observations: September 2020

    Monty's Solar observations : we now appear to be in deep minimum!
    Solar observations: August 2020
    Monty Leventhal OAM
    • Sep 4, 2020
    • 2 min
    Solar Observing

    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...
    In this month: September
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Aug 31, 2020
    • 3 min
    In this Month

    In this month: September

    Every month Elizabeth Cocking, long time member of Sydney City Skywatchers and current secretary, researches interesting historical...
    Solar Observations: January 2020
    Monty Leventhal OAM
    • Feb 5, 2020
    • 1 min
    Member reports

    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...
    Annular Solar Eclipse of 26 Dec 2019
    George Mavrocordatos
    • Nov 23, 2019
    • 1 min
    Solar Observing

    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,...
    Solar observations: October 2019
    Monty Leventhal OAM
    • Nov 15, 2019
    • 2 min
    Solar Observing

    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...
    Solar observations: September 2019
    Monty Leventhal OAM
    • Oct 14, 2019
    • 1 min
    Solar Observing

    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...
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