Limerick Astronomy Club

Hey all,
for all those with solar scope of solar filters, keep an eye out for the growing number of sunspots on the Sun, also keep an eye out for aurora as CME activity has increased abit.

For aurura, have a look at the bottom of the clubs weather page for details,
http://www.shannonsideastronomyclub.com/weather.htm

and for sunspot activity see
http://www.shannonsideastronomyclub.com/sun_current.htm
The sun is definitely getting more active with sunspot counts increasing

some spectacular CME's on the sun over the past 24 hours,
see
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2013

Looks like there is big aurora activity in scandinavia.
There is another CME on the way, its due to hit in the next day or two.