Sunspot AR3664 has grown so large, sprawling almost 200,000 km from end to end. It is 15 times wider than Earth and rivals the great Carrington sunspot of 1859.
Category: Sun
Sun in white light, 25 February 2024
Giant sunspot group AR3590 is more than ten times wider than Earth and can be safely viewed through ordinary eclipse glasses. Report coming soon.
Sun spot region 3190 on January 14, 2023
Sun spot activity is still intensifying. Viktor and Christian were able to observe the sunspot region 3190 through a Celestron 9 telescope.
Partial Solar Eclipse , 25 October 2022
This is the second partial solar eclipse of 2022. It is visible from most of Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, and western parts of Asia. A relaxed observation in an almost cloudless, blue sky.
Sun spot region 2941, 13 Febuary 2022
The face of the sun has changed. After a long spotless drought, spots on the sun’s surface can be seen again. Sunspot group 2941 could be observed on the northwestern horizon and still shows aContinue reading
Partial solar eclipse, 10 June 2021
On June 10, 2021, a partial solar eclipse took place over Austria at noon. The solar eclipse is unfortunately a small partial one, from Austria the area of the solar disk is only darkened byContinue reading
Christians march 2020 observing
Christian has been very active in March 2020 and was able to extensively test his camera equipment over several days. A sun halo, Venus with the Plejades and the Starlink satellites were photographed.
Sun halo with sun dogs
Viktor and Jürgen could observe a sun halo and sun dogs from different locations in Austria. Viktor were Viktor was at the traditional ski flying event on the Kulm in Tauplitz, Styria; Jürgen was ableContinue reading
Sun eclipse of 20 March 2015: Episode 1
This was latest partial sun eclipse from my location in Austria until 2021. The event was visible as a partial eclipse all across Europe; in Wiener Neustadt 62 % of the sun was covered byContinue reading