Huge sunspot right now (4:30 p.m.)

by Jeff Kirk


On Friday, Aug 16, 2002, at 16:41 US/Pacific, Jane Houston Jones wrote:

There is an enormous sunspot visible right now. I looked at it with my homemade solar scope, Dob Sun, fitted with 25mm Kellner eyepiece and a yellow filter (to help the color caused by the green #8 welders glass inside the focusing tube). There are many other smaller spots and groups too. .

I also took out one of those solar eclipse filter cards, and yes you can see the big sunspot through those too!

Believe it or not, when I was going in to Fry's in San Jose this morning, I peered up through the fog, saw the circle of the sun through the dissipating clouds, and SAW THAT SUNSPOT with my sunglass-shielded eyes. I could NOT believe it. I'm so glad you corroborated my sighting! Yahoo! Thanks.