Patrick et al , I agree, it i.s a good night tonight. I've seen sketches on the sunspots from yesterday and today. They look promising. So back to looking through some stuff and not wasting the night. NGC 1980 looked really wonderful when I left it about 10 minutes ago. n 2010-02-09 03:25, Patrick Wiggins wrote:

I have not seen them yet but SpaceWeather.Com is reporting a big group of sunspots. Here's an image from their page:

http://spaceweather.com/images2010/08feb10/midi512_blank.gif?PHPSESSID=ssrr7...

Maybe if the Sun really is going to start up again I may finally get some sort of H-alpha scope.

patrick

p.s. Very nice night tonight.