The Dutch Observatory

December 15, 2019 on 11:48 am | In Sun | Comments Off

Clear skies with good seeing.  Another spotless day.  Spaceweather.com reports that today we surpassed the largest number of spotless days of 2008, which was the yearly maximum for the previous solar minimum.  I still keep looking for the long streaks like those in the previous minimum. The current streak stands at 32 days and is maybe on its way to surpass the two previous longest streaks of this minimum at 33 and 36 days. Today the Sun was quiet.  Did not see any filaments but a few small proms around the Eastern limb.