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Great that you were able to view giant sunspot AR3190 which is now nearing the southwest limb and will soon be lost to view.
The Sun has been extremely active these last few weeks. Quite a treat for solar observers.
I will upload an image taken by Philippe Tosi a few days ago. More recent solar images can be seen on the Solar Section web pages.Attachments:
I managed 110 solar observations during 2022 which isn’t too bad for lat N56.74
Of course I don’t know if my contribution counts in your “league” as I didn’t have to suffer in the cold and dark!Hi Peter,
You already send your images to me for archiving but as Daryl says you can create your own profile and upload them to the Community pages yourself. Also when you send images to me in the Solar Section you can copy in Peter Meadows and he will add your images to the Solar Section web pages.
email Peter Meadows peter@petermeadows.comA huge thank you to all that have contributed images and observations during the transit of AR2993 and AR2994. An excellent photographic record of these groups now exists in the Solar Section archive. Great response from BAA members!
Great response from members sending images of solar activity. All your images are archived. Thank you very much indeed all. Keep them coming!
Thank you Denis and Mark for your images of AR2993 and AR2994, now archived. Another large sunspots has joined the show over the north-east limb.
It is expected that members of the BAA Solar Section will be observing and imaging this event. If you wish to email me about your proposal with further details of what you require, please do so.
Ron was a regular contributor to the Solar Section for many years. Even when his health was failing, Ron managed to take a small telescope outside into a nearby park to record his daily sunspot counts. His lack of mobility in his final months prevented him doing this, much to his annoyance! We corresponded regularly especially when he was not to so mobile.
Ron was awarded the BAA Lydia Brown Award in 1995 and the Walter Goodacre Award in 2012.
He will be very much missed.
Should be designated AR2765 in due course. This is the largest sunspot of Cycle 25 to date. Let us hope this will herald our rise out of solar minimum. I’m unfortunately clouded out too. Hopefully it will last long enough for good observing weather to reappear!
Update: AR2765 located S24/115Very true. It’s often those behind the scenes that do so much work to make these webinars possible. My thanks to Andy and to Dominic for all their preparatory help and guidance.
I also watched the last meeting via the live stream and was most impressed with the quality of camera mixing. The mix of presenter, presentation and audience shots was just right and revealed just what the viewer wanted to see as they wanted to see it. The sound did vary depending upon the whereabouts of the presenter but generally I heard the lectures well. Mary McIntyre was excellent as the Sky Notes presenter and I thoroughly enjoyed her talk. Well done everyone involved.
Thank you for the link. Certainly worth keeping an eye on over coming years. I am sure we are going to learn a great deal from this mission.
Thanks for your posts on this subject. It’s good to see women astronomers of the past getting recognition and emerging from invisibility. Council are considering a programme to highlight the work of women astronomers both professional and amateur during 2020 and to encourage our women members to take an active part in our observing Sections. If you have any ideas about what we can do to progress this theme, please do post them.
Thanks everyone for your great feedback. I‘m so glad you enjoyed the workshop and it’s great location on the banks of the Clyde.
i thoroughly enjoyed the day too as did the members I spoke to at the end of the day. Inverclyde Skywatchers were wonderful as was the talented Marion McNeill who I am sure could organise anything, anywhere with 5 mins notice!
Dr Jeffrey’s talk was right up my street of course but I really enjoyed the talk by Prof Ferguson about the peripheries of galaxies; something quite new to me and I learned a lot. Always something to learn in astronomy!Thank you Lars for posting that link to the live stream. I was struggling to find the link until you kindly posted it.
I note that 30 of us were watching live and must say that the link was excellent and I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to everyone. A particular thanks to Nick James whose Sky Notes are always very informative and well presented.
Merry Xmas and particularly a very Happy New Year when it arrives.
