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 Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: SUNSPOT 1035!!! |
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Woo Hoo! Get out your H-Alpha scope or your Mylar filter, solar fans...
| Saceweather.com wrote: | "THREE DAYS ON THE SUN: Three days ago, the surface of the sun was calm and almost featureless. Then sunspot 1035 burst onto the scene. A movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory shows developments from Dec. 14th to the present:
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The recently invisible spot is now nine times wider than Earth and crackling with C-class solar flares. A series of eruptions on Dec. 16th sent two and perhaps three coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the general direction of our planet. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the clouds arrive beginning on Dec. 18th or 19th. " |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the heads up! 
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:52 am Post subject: |
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Dang- I knew I should've bought that PST last year!
I've got some Mylar- I'm going to try and make a filter for my 20x80 binos.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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I caught it this morning with my ED-80 and Orion glass solar filter. It's a pretty large grouping of spots. I was hoping to image it once it rose out of the trees and haze but by then we had clouded over again. Oh, well. At least I got to see it.
Thanks again, Jason.
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Chopin
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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No problem, Tom. Glad I was able to get someone out there to see it. Sorry the sky cover ruined your fun.
After working last night, spending the morning volunteering at my daughter's school, and then trucking her to a doctor's appt, I took ten minutes out of my day to check it out before finally going to sleep. I grabbed the 4½" newt and Baader Mylar filter and placed it outside in the 20º afternoon air. The scope was in my finished basement (about 60º), so it would have taken me too long to wait for the mirror to cool down to eliminate tube currents. Therefore I used my 24Pan to get a basic non-detailed view at 38x. You know what? This thing is huge. Even without the ability to garner much detail from lack of a steady image, it looked impressive. Maybe tomorrow I'll set the scope up as soon as I get home, and check it out after I sleep.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Sunspots 1036 & 1037 are now visible. Looks like things are picking up! 
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Chopin
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| Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| Square_peg wrote: | | Sunspots 1036 & 1037 are now visible. Looks like things are picking up! |
Excellent info, Tom! Thanks for the heads up. I have the morning off, so I'll put the scope out now to equalize. 
To follow up on last week's views of 1035, I managed another look on Friday, around 2:PM. The original swath of four to five spots was down to two. Detail was visible to a much greater extent, allowing me to use up to 69x in short spurts.. The biggest problem with viewing here has been the massive cold front. Not only do I lack the desire to deal with sub 20ºF temps for sketching, but that same front is making the already turbulent CT skies even worse.
Thanks again, Tom. Out to set up the scope.
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It was too cold and windy to bother setting up in 25" snow drifts this morning...so I set up in my kitchen instead. I viewed 1036 with magnifications from 38-100x. The sweet spot, when viewed through the sliding door, seemed to be 86x with a 10.5mm Abbe ortho. Some good detail is visible in this cluster of scars. Just checking up on other sunspot news, new spot 1038 is now visible to the south of 1036.
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