Finally our sun seems to be coming back to life. The sun goes
through an 11 year cycle where it waxes and wanes with solar
activity. The sun has been stuck in the waning phase for an
extended period and up until a month or so ago solar physicists
didn't really know why. Seems a slower then usual moving solar
jet stream associated with sunspot production thousands of miles
below the sun's surface has finally reached a critical 22 degree
latitude of the sun and with it new cycle sunspots. Got a call
from Spaceweather PHONE last Sunday, July 5 informing me of a
huge Sunspot taking place and got lucky with a break in the
clouds to capture some of the solar action. The image above is
active region 1024 starting to disappear by July 6. They expect
upwards of 90 sunspots to occur daily at solar maximum sometime
in 2013. National Geographic Channel is celebrating the 40 th.
anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing with a new premier,
"Living On The Moon". The show will be aired Sunday July 19, 9
pm EDT, a day before