At work this morning (between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas) a friend told me
that he'd heard something on the news about a geomagetnic storm. He didn't
have any details. We talked for a while and then I remembered that I'd once
seen some large sunspots through filtered glass a few years ago when we had
some big sunspots in the news, so during morning break I went outside to
take a look.

Sure enough, I saw one sunspot through a well-filtered, non-magnified eye:
it appeared totally dead-center in the middle of the sun's disk!!!!! Looked
like a big, bright, yellow long-playing record with no label. Bullseye!
Couldn't see any other spots anywhere near it.

This was about 9:30 a.m. Central time, Thurs. 23 Oct. '03.

Matt J. McCullar
Arlington, TX