Tag: sunspots

Spotty Gas Giants, and Monday’s Full Sturgeon Moon is Blue and Super, Moseys Past Evening Saturn and then Meets Pre-dawn Pleiades!

August 18, 2024

My friend Andrea Girones of Ottawa captured and processed this spectacular view of the sun’s complete disk while attending the annual Starfest gathering on August 7, 2024. It beautifully captures the sun’s convection cell pattern, the dark elongated filaments and the prominences they become when viewed in profile around the sun’s limb (especially at right),…
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Awesome Aurorae, Gorgeous Luna Grows in Evening, Planets Parade in the Pre-Dawn, and Big Dipper Benefits!

May 12, 2024

I captured this image of the once-in-a-lifetime aurora borealis on May 10, 2024 at 10:41 pm, from the trail behind my house in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. Despite somethin cloud we were able to see the aurorae in motion. The green glow is from singly ionized oxygen. The blue arises from nitrogen and the purples come…
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A Spotty Sun, Comet E3 Enters Evening, Pre-dawn Lunar Libration, Mercury in Morning, Venus Smooches Saturn at Sunset, and a Taurus Tour!

January 15, 2023

This amazing composite image by Detlef Hartmann shows the continued expansion of the Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (aka Messier 1) in Taurus over 10 years (Sept 29, 2008 through Sept 22, 2017). It spans about 0.1 degrees of the sky. In the heart of the nebula sits a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits radio…
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A Spotty Sun, Morning Luna’s Silver Sliver, Dotted Jupiter and Ringed Saturn Ride the Sea-Goat, and Looking at Lyra!

August 29, 2021

This full-disk image of the sun in visible wavelengths was taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite on August 29, 2021. It shows the huge sunspot group designated AR2860 that is currently visible by anyone using safely filtered telescopes, pinhole projectors, and eclipse viewers. That active region is emitting strong M-class flares. Visit Spaceweather.com and…
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The Sun Starts to Sport Spots, the Full Pink Moon is Sort of Super, and Planets Pair up at Dusk and Dawn!

April 25, 2021

This full disk image of the sun on April 23, 2021 was taken by Dave Hoskins. This view shows the sun through a special solar telescope that uses the Hydrogen-alpha wavelength in the red part of the visible spectrum. A large group of small sunspots sits just to the lower left of centre, surrounded by…
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