Chris Wyatt, comet chaser, will be talking about how he got into comets, how he started observing them and how he found all these great connections.

One of the short talks at our AGM and members' night on 7 October 2026

During August I was able to observe the solar photosphere on twelve mornings at 10am. This was over two distinct groups as after Aug 12 weather and a trip away meant I could not observe again until August 24, and I was home on 3 more sunny mornings at the end of the month. Figures 1a and 1b show the sunspot activity. Figure 1a shows that sunspot activity started strongly at the beginning of August then dropped constantly, until by Aug 10 there were no sunspots at all. Figure