Solar Activity Sept-Oct 2026, report by Andrew Wood

Having started a solar observing program and having reported collected data for July and August this year, I was overseas for most of September. Another local trip had me away from my gear for a week in October. Adding in adverse conditions, plus other life events that had me out of home, the result was that during September and October this year I was able to record observations on only six mornings.

Despite that lack of data, it is still reasonable to conclude that we are in a period of low solar activity.

The table below summarises the data from the days I was able to observe.

Table 1: Summary of White Light and Hydrogen-alpha observations of the solar photosphere during September and October 2026.

As indicated in Table 1, there was some activity as September began though by the time I was able to observe again at month’s end there was no observable activity. There was a bounce in activity by mid-October, though by month’s end there was very little.

During this period, only one drawing was made; on October 12.

Figure 1: A sketch of sunspots observed on Oct 12, 2026, through a 127mm Masutov-Cassegrain fitted with a white-light solar filter.

On the day of writing this, November 2, this morning there was one single sunspot visible. The weather forecast for the days ahead is not looking favourable.

Recorded data was submitted to the Solar Section of the British Astronomical Association Solar – British Astronomical Association.

Reported by Andrew Wood