Sunspot Drawing July 7th

[Astronomer, Reinvented]

The sky was partly cloudy but I managed to get a large enough gap in the cloud to see the Sun through my binoculars and filters. I was pleasantly surprised to see that new sunspot activity had rotated onto the Sun and another sunspot had darkened enough to reach binocular visibility. This may sound insufficient to excite less astronomically experienced readers of this blog but seeing two new sunspots within 24 hours seems like a dream come true, especially when astronomers remember the last solar minimum, where no sunspots were visible for months on end!

 

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