Monty's Solar observations : we now appear to be in deep minimum!

For the month of August 2020 Sunspot activity was quite low during my observations with only five spot groups observed, most were single...

JULY 2020... The Bureau of Meteorology has not yet released its July 2020 report, however, there was 183 mm of rainfall in Sydney (the...

Monty has been observing regularly but over the past few months his reports have not been happy ones because the Sun has not been very...

Sunspot activity for the month of January remained extremely low however, on the 3rd January a single Axx spot was observed of the new...

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,...

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...

Sunspot activity for the month of September remained extremely low however, on the 1st September two very small Bxi spots were observed...

Coronal Holes were observed at the end of July, beginning of August by Space Weather.com - these are shown in the image above from NASA's...

For the month of July, 2019 and during my 21 days of solar observations I did not see any Sunspot activity. The only activity that was...