Sunspots ahoy!

Over on our sister site, the Old Weather team are digitising ship’s logs from first world war Royal Navy vessels … More

Storms, data-analysis and fruitcake

Thanks to everyone who helped track the most recent bunch of solar storms. Several of them came by Earth but … More

Thanks for another year of stormwatching!

As another year of stormwatching draws to a close I thought I’d summarise some of the things we have achieved … More

Real science, real progress

Hi Stormwatchers! The science team may have been a bit quiet on the Stormwatch forum of late but that doesn’t … More

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 – the solar selection

Last month I attended the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards, held at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, with fellow Solar … More

Clicks to Predictions I – Incoming trace – Identify Storms

Every four hours we pull all the data from incoming trace-it from the database, this give us a massive file … More

First results from trace-it!

Now that you have been analysing the data for some time, we can now start to look at the results … More

First scientific results submitted for publication – circular storms

Finally, a little after 1 year from the launch of SSW, we are finding ourselves in the exciting position of … More

HI ho, HI ho, it’s off to work we go!

We’ve been meeting with various people lately who are all interested in using your data analysis in their research. As … More

Science in tents – Cheltenham Sci Fest 2011

I’m just back from 2 days at Cheltenham Science Festival helping to promote Solar Stormwatch and the rest of the … More