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Sunspots. Ron Wasielewski of New Britain, CT is not an astrophotographer, but he did a great job capturing these sunspots on the setting Sun. The pictures were taken on consecutive days, May 21 and 22, 2023. They were taken with a Canon PowerShot SX540HS at full 50x zoom. No filters or other enhancements were made to the pictures. Notice the long line of spots in the Sun’s northern hemisphere.

Aurora. Some ASNH members were able to spot the auroral activity that was observed in many parts of the world on April 23 (see Michael Amato’s report on page 4). In Killingworth, Jim Mazur captured some red in the northern sky with a Canon T6i camera in an 8-second exposure at f/4, ISO 12800. The color is much more intense in this image than could be seen with the naked eye. The bright star at the upper left is Polaris.