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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 93, 13 October 1894, Page 4

11 Observer " writes to tne Post :— The spot I noticed recently is the most beautiful one I have ever seen upon the sun. It is an oval, in length about 80,000 miles, in breadth 20,000 miles. These are rough eye measurements only, estimated from the length of the sun's diameter, 859,000 miles. The oval spot is made up of very many centres of eruption orinruption and there are at least 40 to 60 of these. They are all distinot and separate each one beinz surrounded with the bright photosphere Below these are two spots, each one about 10,000 miles in size. I am not sure whether there was any connection between these and the oval collection. The spots are readily seen with an ordinary binocular, the e.ve-piece protected with a piece of smoked glass. They would be visible readil) to the naked eve, a smoked piece of glass being used here also. I ully expect, unless all theory is wrong, a magnificent Aurora next week — say, to follow Mr Eugene's guess work, on Wednesday evening Dr Rapell, of the Sydney Observatory, wrot* to me that the spot preceding the last Aurora was 84,000 miles in length. Mara will be at its brightest on 20th October. It is a beautiful object in the eastern cky about Oo'clQDk.