Why the Sun is boring now

[Ben the Ignorant]

 

[Buzzard75]

Hadn't seen his channel before. Very well explained and good summary of the report. I know the theory being presented hasn't been proved yet, I'd still be interested to know what it predicts for the next solar cycle.

Edited July 31, 2019 by Buzzard75

[Ben the Ignorant]

I often wondered what inside the solar dynamo could cause that superficial and extremely long sunspot cycle that doesn't match any known phenomenom within. Well, if it's not inside, it's outside.

[MarsG76]

Very interesting... but playing with planetary positions to given dates, only the 2014 Solar maximum coincides to the theory.. and even than it's January 2014 not April 2014, when the Solar Max was at peak.... the previous Solar Max dates are way off from a Venus, Earth and Jupiter alignment...

Site I used for the position simulation is https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem?obj=&h=11&m=15&date=2014-01-11

 

 

[xtreemchaos]

the Sun is never boring and anything can happen at any time and the truth is what we know about it is very little so whats new eh 😀.. charl a solarholic needing  medication.

[MarsG76]

12 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

the Sun is never boring

true that...

[Peter Drew]

Excellent solar viewing today. Good transparency following the recent (always recent!) rain. Nice range of prominences on show and crisp surface and spicule detail.    😎

[Rusted]

My only chance of a view of the sun here today would involve high speed photography and pure chance.

Spicicles? At 72F? It's not that cold! 

[johninderby]

Was nice and clear this moring. The new setup almost worked. With the focal reducer couldn’t quite achive focus. New short nosepiece ordered that should sort it out. At least the new camera worked and the full sun’s disc fitted in the Fov and the motorised focuser worked nicely. 👍🏻

Out of focus image.

Edited August 6, 2019 by johninderby

[Paz]

Interesting to see 2 reports from Monday of good conditions. I got home from work on Tuesday and had a brief chance to set up, this would have been around 6pm. The view was quite good.

In particular I saw a lot of faculae around a small spot, the first spot I've seen in a long time.

This was only 5 minutes at the eyepiece with the ST120 and wedge at 75x to 150x.

[newbie alert]

The sun is never boring...it's the most dynamic object you will ever see

[viewer]

Hi there!

Nice hypothesis. Who knows if it is connected, waiting for confirmation. It could though be some resonance inside the sun. 

https://www.space.com/planets-affect-solar-cycle.html

"What we see is complete parallelism with the planets over the course of 90 cycles.". That's a bit long time IMO, around 1000 years. 

 

Edited August 10, 2019 by viewer

[AngryDonkey]

On 09/08/2019 at 08:45, newbie alert said:

The sun is never boring...it's the most dynamic object you will ever see

You obviously never met my kids.... 😂

[newbie alert]

1 hour ago, AngryDonkey said:

You obviously never met my kids.... 😂

Swap ya mine for yours any day.. mine are certainly dynamic..