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No sunspots

I just observed the Sun: no sunspots, just like the other day. The current sunspot cycle has been quite low. Since a number of years, I am reporting my sunspot observations to the international data centre in Brussels; monitoring such … Continue reading

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Low sunspot stats

Paradoxically as it may sound, I find observing the sun these days very exciting. Few sunspots show up – today’s lunch-break observation with the 90mm Maksutov showed 3 groups and 6 spots – and the maximum last year of solar … Continue reading

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Solar observing

I used to observe sunspots with my 60 mm refractor during the 1980s and reported the observations to the solar section of SAAF, the Swedish amateur astronomical association. Recently, my curiosity about what the sun is up to grew and … Continue reading

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