Category: Seestar Sun - My Stardust Observatory

~ The Sun ‘New Years Day’ with sunspot AR 4325 on 1st January 2026 ~

1/1/2026

~ Happy New Year to Everyone ~

Here’s hoping we have lots of surprises in the skies for 2026 :-)

Light rain started to fall about 9pm last night for New Years Eve which dampened a few of the firework celebrations here on the Gold Coast, but I’m sure everyone still had a great time!

I was determined to capture a picture of the Sun today for the first day of the New Year even though there was quite a lot of cloud about; I did it, so here is the Happy New Year Sun for 2026!

Because I post a lot of my images on Spaceweather.com this is the greeting that went with my post today on there website for everyone, if you are interested is what the Sun is currently up to and seeing some amazing solar and night sky images this is the place to go daily at: https://spaceweather.com/

Happy New Year to Dr Tony Phillips and all contributors of Spaceweather.com from all over the world, I hope everybody has a wonderful year in 2026 :-)

My images were taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with an attached solar filter; the sky was not very good because of clouds, twenty images were captured then stacked in Registax6 and processed in PS.

Sunspots AR4294 & AR4296 on western limb of Sun 9th December 2025

12/9/2025

I’ve managed to follow the progression of these huge sunspot groups AR 4294 & AR 4296 for 7 days as they have rotated from the east to west on the surface of the Sun.

It was expected that at some time that either one of these sunspots would have released there pent up energy in the form of a solar flare or a CME, but that did not happen!

The eastern side of the Sun is looking very quite at the moment and I’ll now have a bit of a break from taking some solar images for a few days.

My images were taken with the Seestar S50mm smart telescope using the attached solar filter. Twenty images were captured, then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.

~ Huge sunspots AR 4294 to AR 4296 on Sun 7th December 2025 ~

12/7/2025

For days now we have all been waiting for one of these huge sunspots to erupt when all of a sudden the smaller one AR 4299 decided to explode producing a M8 class solar flare; the Sun can do unexpected things sometimes and can be tricky :-)

This directed solar flare (CME) is Earth directed and should produce some beautiful auroras in the next couple of days up in the Northern Hemisphere.

You can keep an eye out on Spaceweather.com for more information and I’m sure there will be some beautiful images posted by contributors to the website at:
https://spaceweather.com/

You can also check for space weather conditions at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Centre at: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

~ Large active Sunspots AR4294, AR4296 on Sun 5th December 2025 ~

12/5/2025

Those large active sunspots are now rotating toward the centre of the Sun and could produce some powerful X-class solar flares at any moment :-o

NASA X-Class: A guide to Solar Flares: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10109

Spaceweather.com has information on this complex sunspot group that is now facing our planet Earth at: https://spaceweather.com/

Images were taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with attached solar filter, twenty images captured, then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.

~ Huge sunspots AR4294, AR4296 & AR4298 on Sun 3rd December 2025 ~

12/3/2025

All the action is on the eastern side of Sun at the moment, with those very large active sunspots AR4294, AR4296 & AR4298 travelling across the solar surface together in a long trail…

I only just managed to capture these images before the clouds rolled in again!

Images were taken with Seestar S50 telescope with attached solar filter, 20images captured then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.

~ Huge sunspots AR4294, AR4296 & AR4298 on surface of Sun 3rd December 2025 ~

~ Sun with large sunspots AR4246, 4248 & 4250 on 14th October 2025 ~

10/14/2025

~ The Sun with large sunspots AR4246, AR4248 & AR4250 ~

Wow! These three sunspots groups are looking very interesting indeed and growing bigger and bigger by the hour! I just managed to captured them late this afternoon before the clouds rolled in :-)

Twenty-five images were captured with Seestar S50 telescope using the attached solar filter, images stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.

~ The Sun with large active sunspot AR 4232 on 4th October 2025 ~

10/4/2025

The Sun today with the large active sunspot AR 4232 on the surface of the Sun, images taken with the Seestar S50 telescope and the attached solar filter.

Twenty images were captured, then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.

~ Big sunspot AR 4197 rotating toward western limb of Sun ~

9/2/2025

~ Big sunspot AR 4197 now rotating toward western limb of Sun on the 2nd September 2025 ~

A geomagnetic storm struck earth today from a CME that struck yesterday, so not sure if it will cause any auroras, please keep an eye on the Spaceweather.com website at https://spaceweather.com/
to see if any astrophotographers captured any pictures of the event :-)

These image were captured with a Seestar S50mm telescope and the attached solar filter, 20 images were captured and stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.

~ Complex Sunspot group AR 4197 on Sun 31st August 2025~

8/31/2025

~ The solar surface with complex sunspot AR 4197 ~
~ 31st August 2025 ~

Now there’s a very interesting sunspot group on the surface of the Sun designated AR 4197, it’s very large and active and has many smaller sunspot that appear to be interconnected with each other… it’s going to be interesting to see what happens with this area in the next couple of days!

It’s a treat but nearly every morning the Suns light shines (refracts) through the cut glass that surrounds our patio, it’s so pretty. Today I capture an image with my iPhone with all the colours :-)

Solar images were taken with a Seestar S50 telescope with an attached solar filter, 20 images were captures then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.

~ Wow! Large active Sunspots on eastern limb of Sun ~

8/28/2025

~ Wow! Active Sun Today 28th August 2025 ~

Wow! There was such a lot of activity on the solar surface today, I finally set up the ZWO ASI 174mm camera with the Lunt solar telescope and took some pictures of those very active sunspots on the eastern limb.

I was just blown away with the detail that this little camera was able to capture and I’ll use it from now on instead of the Canon 700D DSLR :-)

(Ha) images were taken with a Lunt 60mm solar telescope; the close up image was with a 2x Barlow lens attached to the ZWO camera.

The white light images were taken with a Seestar S50 with its attached solar filter, 20 images stacked in Registax6 and processed in PS.

~ White light image taken with little Seestar S50 telescope and attached solar filter ~