The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

sunspots

Solar Observing

By Kevin at Thu, 06/16/2016 - 12:29pm
Event Date: 
Sat, 11/12/2016 - 8:00am - 2:00pm
Sun

Solar Observing

By Kevin at Thu, 06/16/2016 - 12:27pm
Event Date: 
Sat, 09/24/2016 - 8:00am - 2:00pm
Sun

Sun July 6, 2012

By JohnMiksits at Fri, 07/06/2012 - 11:27am
El Sol

Here's a photo of the sun.  I had an impossible time finding a perfect focus.  I used a Celestron SP-C6 telescope and an Olympus C-4040Zoom.  I was very impressed with the Thousand Oaks Solar Filter.  The RG film is great.  I used to use Roger Tutthill's solar filter.  Oaks is a more natural color instead of blue.

Solar Fireworks

By Kevin at Sat, 07/04/2009 - 2:08pm
4th of July Sunspots

Looks like there's a nice sunspot group on the Sun -- some nice solar fireworks for the 4th of July! Biggest group I've seen in quite sometime. It is right on the meridian.

Sunspots

By Kevin at Tue, 03/25/2008 - 11:13pm

Note a group of small sunspots have just come onto the disk. They're not visible to the naked eye but might be nice with a white light or H-alpha filter.