Message text written by John Carmichael >By the way, did you know that you can use a shadow sharpener to see sunspots on the sun?<
Hi John, It's hard to see if the image is too small though. The most unusual way I've ever seen sunspots is *directly*. I was driving west at sunset on an *extremely humid* hot august evening. As my car crested a hill the sun was sitting on the horizon, *easily* viewable because it was so washed out by the haze. I could not believe my eyes - I could clearly make out 2 large sunspots and 3 smaller ones. I think the sunspots were probably monstrous as far as sunspots go.... I've never seen them with the naked eye again although I try to look when the conditions are comparable. Chuck
