Solar Cycle 25 Images
We are now into Solar cycle 25; the 25th cycle since 1750 when modern Sun spot records began of the 11 year cycle. Cycle 25 was originally predicted to start late 2019, peak around mid-2025 and last until 2030, but seems to have started in April/May 2020 (source NOAA).

My images of this cycle start in May 2020 which therefore probably marks the start of cycle 25. The start of the cycle was very quiet (as expected).

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Cycle 25 Highlights

10th May 2024. A huge Sun spot group (3664) fired off a bunch of CME's that resulted in a very rare G5 magnetic storm that in turn resulted in the major Aurora of the 10th May. My Ha (Hydrogen Alpha) image below shows the sun spot group and one of my aurora images. Also included is my all sky camera time lapse video of the aurora.

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7th May 2024. Solar activity continues to increase with solar max now forecast to be around late '24 to early '26 (source NOAA). The two images below show the Sun in white lights and Hydrogen alpha a few minutes apart.

19th Jan 2023. Solar activity is picking up nicely with multiple sun spot groups. This is the most active the Sun has been so far in this cycle with a few M class flares associared with region 3190.

8th to 18th July 2022. In a rare event in the UK we had a week of constant sun during a time of pretty good solar activity, so I produced this video showing visual and Ha light for each day.

31st March 2022

This week has been the most active so far for cycle 25 including an X-class (X1.3) flare from region 2975.