We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

— Oscar Wilde

Sun

Sun

By Kevin at Tue, 06/25/2013 - 3:20pm
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.

El Sol

By JohnMiksits at Fri, 07/06/2012 - 11:26am
El Sol

Like I wrote on my blog, I really couldn't find a perfect focus.  It's hot now!

A photo of a photo happening

By JohnMiksits at Fri, 10/08/2010 - 9:21pm
A photo of a photo happening

Chrissy Fimiani takes a photo of Roger West, Mary Lou West, John Miksits and Phil Fimiani.  We were at the beginning of the solar system walk, the sun, at the NJ Botanical Gardens.  Our final destination along the walk was Saturn.  Saturn was quite a distance from this point. 

This photo of all of us was taken by Maja Britton. 

Earth atmosphere heated by another souce...

By myamiphil at Sun, 09/27/2009 - 12:24pm

A surprise in the upper atmoshere of the Earth
 
Another way of heating the earths atmosphere has been found... THis one is not due to the sun's heating of the earth by sunlight.
 
 

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.

Have some fun the next 3 years

By kuky at Tue, 05/05/2009 - 5:51pm
Sun-Earth

For scary speculation about the end of civilization in 2012, people usually turn to followers of cryptic Mayan prophecy, not scientists. But that’s exactly what a group of NASA-assembled researchers described in a chilling report issued earlier this year on the destructive potential of solar storms.

Whats with the Sun!!!

By myamiphil at Fri, 07/11/2008 - 10:41am

Sure now I have a solar telescope, a solar shield for my other telescope and the Sun is in the duldrums!!! The last one last 500 years!!!! (Maunder Minimum)   

 

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11jul_solarcycleupdate.htm?list880574     

 

I dont have 500 years to spare !!!

 

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.