Active regions 1967 & 1968
When a sunspot rotates into view it is assigned a number, even if the sunspot already had a number assigned to it on a previous rotation. Sunspot ARs 1967 and 1968 were numbered 1944 and 1946 the last time around. See the 8 Jan 2014 image.
Active regions 1944, 1946 & 1948
Approximately 12 million years ago, a white dwarf star in the galaxy M 82 exploded. This week, light from the distant supernova finally reached Earth.
Telescope : SLOOH (Canary Islands)
A sampling of Ken’s images.
Ken took this image of the 58 mile wide crater Copernicus from his front yard in Poquito Bayou.
Dennis took this image of the 3-way conjunction on the 26th of May from Tom’s Bayou bridge. The planets are from bright to dim: Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury.
Dennis dug down deep in his archives and found images that he took of a rare apparition in Northwest Florida, the aurora borealis. These were taken on the 2oth of November 2003 at the Munson observing site.
Orion Nebula (M 42)
NGC 7882