The Association of Lunar and Planetary – Solar Section was formed in 1982 at the request of the founder and then Director, Walter Haas. We defined our observational goals then as being the coordination of optical observations of solar morphology. We do not count sunspots but use such statistics from several international sources all of whom do a far better job of it than we could. Our first 40 years have been highly successful with contributions from a number of countries filling our files today. Whatever telescope you have, with proper safe filtration, can make useful contributions to the work of the Section. So join the Solar Section get observing and as you observe you will learn about other instruments, techniques and filters from other more experienced observers.