SAASST News

Saturday, 31 October 2020 09:54

SAASST on "spaceweather.com"

A nice picture of the sunspot AR2778 appeared on the "spaceweather.com" website on Oct. 27, 2020. The picture was taken by Mr. Mohamed Talafha from the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology. AR2778 is the biggest sunspot of young Solar Cycle 25, with nearly a dozen dark cores spawling almost 100,000 km across the solar surface. The picture was taken using the 10 cm solar telescope at the SAASST Sharjah Optical Observatory with an H-Alpha filter. The zoomed insert is with a white light filter. More sunspots of the new Solar Cycle 25 are appearing over the hours, recently sunspot AR2779 in addition to AR2778.