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With bad hay fever and a sore back, I limited my solar activity to a Binocular scan. The two sunspots to the right of the solar disc had rotated off,...
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Soho reports more coming. I hope your back is better soon.
My back and hips were sore after moving the lawn, one of the disadvantages of being in my late 60s. Fortunately, my eyesight was good enough to spot...
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Hopefully you did not move the lawn to far away ;)
Glad you had clear skies, it has been lightning and thunder here for the last week and next is all...
The Sun was high in the sky, almost as high as it gets. I saw three sunspots, unfortunately, close to the western limb and due to rotate to the other...
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Interesting to see the movement between the 29th and the 30th Phil.
Did you take your observations at about the same time each day?
The viewing conditions were the same as the day before – hazy, with some thin cloud. The Sun appeared to be becoming more active but the reality was...
There was some thin cloud around but I photographed the Sun anyway. I had left the ISO setting at 6400, so had a lot of processing to do. I manged to...
The conditions were a bit better than the day before but only a little bit. I was able to see that the two sunspots I had seen the day before had...
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Hi Philip. Another nice solar image sketch from you. It looks like you caught the active region pair AR3279 and AR3281 and AR3282 towards the bottom....
There were some clear patches between the cloud, so I bin scanned the Sun and saw three small sunspots.
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Hi Philip. A nice solar sketch in white light on the binoculars. It looks like you caught active regions AR3275 on the left and AR3272, AR3273 on the...
I arrived at work in bright sunlight. The three sunspots from the day before had changed shape and intensity. It was amazing how the Sun could change...
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