The list has been pretty active this morning so to save bandwidth I'll respond to 4 recent messages at once. Chuck Hards wrote:

There is a very large sunspot group visible, a smaller one not too far away, and two dots between them.

I was able to pull out the larger one with just a filter in front of my eye. No scope or binos needed. Aaron Lambert wrote:

How do you go about making a home-made spotter?

Hey, Chuck, this is right up your alley. Think you might be able to demo making such at thing at next week's swap meet? Jim Stitley wrote:

No one mentioned Barbarella yet with Jane Fonda...

Vietnam vets aren't fonda Jane. Kim Hyatt wrote:

I was 14 when 2001 was released. Sure, I had some questions, but I "got" most of it.

Yes, but haven't you said you had a lot of pharmacological help back then? :-)