Big Sunspot 822
Spaceweather.com has some nice pictures of the current sunspot 822 online. Sunspot 822 is around 140,000 km wide – approximately the size of the planet Jupiter.
We might get some interesting – although disturbed – propagation the next days.
Sunspot 822 as of November 16th 2005
(c) by spaceweather.com
November 27th, 2005 19:39
I think that this is really interesting, and it inspired me to do a presentation on this at my school, in my science class. I even tried to take (safe lens) binoculars, and I looked up to the sun and I was able to see this sunspot, and the one off to the side.
November 28th, 2005 03:36
Interesting, hope you had good luck with your presentation. Big sunspots can indeed be seen with the clear eye. But as you mentioned always use safe methods. More details can be found at: http://www.spaceweather.com/sunspots/doityourself.html