{"id":67604,"date":"2026-11-10T08:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=67604"},"modified":"2026-11-10T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:13:31","slug":"video-detecting-sunspots-on-the-far-side-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/video-detecting-sunspots-on-the-far-side-of-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Detecting Sunspots on the Far Side of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to<em> SWLing Post<\/em> contributor David Shannon, who shares the following short video about detecting sunspots on the far side of the Sun:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qXlvzRiU1_8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qXlvzRiU1_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor David Shannon, who shares the following short video about detecting sunspots on the far side of the Sun: Click here to view on YouTube. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,810,304],"tags":[411],"class_list":["post-67604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-space-weather","category-videos","tag-sunspots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hAo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31835,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/sunspots-are-in-short-supply-and-its-only-getting-worse\/","url_meta":{"origin":67604,"position":0},"title":"Sunspots are in short supply (and it&#8217;s only getting worse)","author":"Thomas","date":"May 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Unfortunately, this is not news to brighten your day. 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