We have planned our trip for November 9th to the Catskills. While we are upstate, we are going to observe the sun from different altitudes in the mountains and try our best to observe sunspots and make sunspot drawings. It’ll be exciting to go into nature and experience the sun and its natural effects firsthand. For our observation, we are planning on using a projection technique. It involves two pieces of card stock and a pin hole that will project an image of the sun so that we can observe it without looking directly at it or needing to buy expensive equipment. The instructions are posted here: http://solar-center.stanford.edu/observe/.

It turns out this website has a lot of interesting info about the sun! I would check it out if you’re interested.