The summer and winter solstices mark a special time in our calendar. When the sun is over the Tropic of Capricorn this is the peak of...

It was a balmy evening on Monday 1 May and thirty-one attendees, including nineteen members of our astronomy group, had a very successful...

SUNSPOTS AND SOLAR FLARES A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with...

Every Month I summarise my observations. You can find out more about me and how I make my solar observations on a previous blog post....

Like many amateur astronomers I am planning to visit the United States to view a total solar eclipse in August this year. On Monday...

Monty Leventhal OAM regularly reports on his solar observations at Sydney City Skywatcher meetings. Every morning when the Sun is visible...

2016 December, “Here be Dragons!”: Back in 2007 most Heliophysicists predicted that solar cycle 24 (SC24), the current cycle, would be a...