Photography by Ian L. Sitren

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Sunspots 10-31-2023

The large Sunspot area is designated as AR3474. It is actually made up of 30 individual Sunspots covering an area of 1,380 million square kilometers. By comparison the Earth covers an area of 510 million square kilometers. 10-31-2023 Palm Springs California

Sunspots 06-27-2023

Sunspot activity this morning with a large region that produced 8 solar flares and a minor radio blackout over the Atlantic Ocean north of Puerto Rico. Palm Springs California


Sunspots 06-14-2023

Photographed this morning 06-14-2023. Solar activity has been low the last few days. Some sunspots. Activity is going to be on the increase.


Sunspots 06-03-2023

The Sun photographed this morning in Palm Springs at 0820hrs PST. The Sunspots are actually assigned a number and they are tracked. Sunspots are the origins for Solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

From NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)… Solar Cycle 25 has ramped up much faster than scientists predicted producing more sunspots and eruptions than experts had forecast. Tracking and predicting the Sun’s solar cycles gives a rough idea of the frequency of space weather storms of all types – from radio blackouts to geomagnetic storms and solar radiation storms – and it’s used by many industries to gauge the potential impact of space weather on Earth. Though we are seeing increased activity on the Sun, we expect this solar cycle to be average compared to solar cycles in the past century. Solar Cycle began in December 2019.