It’s not that I have writers block, it’s just that I can’t make my mind what to write about. I don’t want to write about photography, I did that last night.
I could write about astronomy, the Aurora Borealis (the Northern Lights) are figuring in the news a lot at the moment. The sun’s main cycle lasts eleven years. We (people) started measuring the cycle in 1755, that was cycle 1. We are currently in cycle 25, and cycle 25 is more active (it appears a lot more active) than cycle 24 which ended in December 2019. This increased actiivity means that the aurora is being pushed further south. There are reports that it has been visible from as far south as Somerset. You’d think that was quite exceptional.
Reading Gilbert White’s journals, surprised me. On several occasions only within the first couple of chapters he reported seeing several aurora at Selborne. Cycles s1 & 2, which cover what there is of Gilberts journals that I have read so far seem to have been fairly average strength with an average daily sunspot count of 70 and 99 respectively, which when compared with cycle 24 which had 49 makes them relatively twice as active.
And there you go, that’s today’s post, which involved a little bit of research and reading, which I found quite interesting.
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